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ALSO KNOWN AS		Manata, Wullili, Sawali, "Tanglapui"
CLASSIFICATION		Timor-Alor-Pantar, Alor
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		swt
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Lalamana Salimana Sileba Loona Manase Kanaumana Kilaara Saliira Lamotena
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MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		While Sawila [swt] and Kula [tpg] are both sometimes called 'Tanglapui,' they are separate languages which are not mutually intelligible.

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Information from: “Sawila” . František Kratochvíl (2014) , Antoinette Schapper · De Gruyter

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~3,000
Native speakers worldwide
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"According to the Ethnologue, there are about 3,000 speakers of Sawila; I have not been able to obtain a more precise count."

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"Bilingualism and multilingualism are the norm: most Sawila speakers are fluent in Wersing and/or Kula. Knowledge of Malay is also widespread and there is an ongoing shift to it, resulting in increasing endangerment of Sawila."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Wersing
Kula
Malay

PLACES: Indonesia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "The northern dialects (in the original mountain villages [before coastal resettlement in the 1970s] Manase, Lalamana, Kanaumana) are spoken nowadays in Kiralela, Aura, and Kolana; the central dialects (Salimana and Kilaara) are spoken in Maritaing and Yesu; the southern dialects (Saliira, Loona, and Lamotena) are spoken in Warendo, Krangle, Erana, and Kunatena."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Grimes et al.)

DATE OF INFO: 1997

PLACES: Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Nusa Tenggara Timur Province; southeast Alor island, between Kula [tpg] and Wersing [kvw] language areas."

978-1-61451-723-8					2014	Sawila	The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1			Antoinette Schapper		De Gruyter									František Kratochvíl							~3,000		1000-9999	"According to the Ethnologue, there are about 3,000 speakers of Sawila; I have not been able to obtain a more precise count."					Wersing, Kula, Malay						Most	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			"Bilingualism and multilingualism are the norm: most Sawila speakers are fluent in Wersing and/or Kula. Knowledge of Malay is also widespread and there is an ongoing shift to it, resulting in increasing endangerment of Sawila."				"The northern dialects (in the original mountain villages [before coastal resettlement in the 1970s] Manase, Lalamana, Kanaumana) are spoken nowadays in Kiralela, Aura, and Kolana; the central dialects (Salimana and Kilaara) are spoken in Maritaing and Yesu; the southern dialects (Saliira, Loona, and Lamotena) are spoken in Warendo, Krangle, Erana, and Kunatena."	Indonesia		-8.218577, 125.133487
			18th		2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition				Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig		SIL International			Dallas, Texas					http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.						3,000	1997	1000-9999	(Grimes et al.)												Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								Indonesia	"Nusa Tenggara Timur Province; southeast Alor island, between Kula [tpg] and Wersing [kvw] language areas."

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