ELP ID
30784
ELP Language
Wambaya
Speaker Number
10-99
Semi Speakers
32
Public Comment
“A recent survey of language speakers undertaken by Robert Hoogenraad lists 32 people who claim to be full speaks of Wambaya…”“...One old (now deceased) Wambaya man is reported as claiming there are only two fluent Wambaya speakers left (of which he was one) as all the other speakers have mixed the language up with Gudanji.”
Source
A Grammar of Wambaya
Preferred
Off
Speaker Number Text
“My estimates are that there are only between 15 and 20 really competent speakers of Wambaya left…”
Speaker Number Range
10-99