Sawila
[, другое название: Manata, Wullili, Sawali]Классификация: Timor-Alor-Pantar
·близок к исчезновению
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Близок к исчезновению
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~3,000
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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."
- ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ О СТАТУСЕ ЯЗЫКА
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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."
- ДРУГИЕ ЯЗЫКИ, ИСПОЛЬЗУЕМЫЕ ДАННЫМ СООБЩЕСТВОМ СООБЩЕСТВОМ
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Wersing
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Kula
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Malay
- ГЕОГРАФИЯ
- Indonesia
- ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ КОММЕНТАРИИ
"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."