Watam | Endangered Languages Project (original) (raw)

Stories

Recent Resources

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<1,086

Native Speakers Worldwide

Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 1

Most members of the community or ethnic group speak the language. Speaker numbers may be decreasing, but very slowly.

1

Domains of Use

Domain Of Use 2

Used in some non-official domains along with other languages, and remains the primary language used in the home for many community members.

2

Transmission

Transmission -1

All members of the community, including children, speak the language.

-1

Revitalization Programs

Forums

Bibliography

Bibliography of Vitality:

A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Lower Ramu Languages of Papua New Guinea (Awar [aya], Bosmun [bqs], Kayan [kct], and Marangis [wax])

Bibliography of Locations:

Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian. 2014.
Glottolog 2.3. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://glottolog.org)

Bibliography of Context:

A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Lower Ramu Languages of Papua New Guinea (Awar [aya], Bosmun [bqs], Kayan [kct], and Marangis [wax])