classification: "Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic; North New Guinea",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:29784,
code_id:10379,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "434",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: ">600",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""There are 600+ Matukar villagers (Harrison and Anderson 2009) and according to Ethnologue 434 of those are speakers of Matukar... Most fluent speakers are in the parental generation or older."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98037,
preferred:1,
},
{
id:29785,
code_id:10379,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "~300",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""Spoken by about 300 or so adults, and the children aren't really learning it anymore. Also, young adults don't always speak it."",