10605 (Mende)

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id: 10605,
code_val: "sim",
code_authorities: "ISO 639-3",
primary_name: "Mende",
alternate_names: "Seim; Nihamber; Sambu",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Sepik; Nukuma",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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  - id: 31167,
  - code_id: 10605,
  - speaker_number: "1000-9999",
  - speaker_number_text: "3,180",
  - second_language_speakers: "",
  - semi_speakers: "",
  - children: "",
  - young_adults: "",
  - older_adults: "",
  - elders: "",
  - ethnic_population: "",
  - date_of_info: "1967",
  - public_comment: "Laycock (1973) later treats Kwanga and Mende (Seim) as a single language, but the two appear to be distinct (Hoel, Ikäheimonen, and Nozawa 1997).",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 98993,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
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  - id: 31168,
  - code_id: 10605,
  - speaker_number: "1000-9999",
  - speaker_number_text: "<5,057",
  - second_language_speakers: "",
  - semi_speakers: "",
  - children: "",
  - young_adults: "",
  - older_adults: "",
  - elders: "",
  - ethnic_population: "5,057",
  - date_of_info: "",
  - public_comment: ""According to the 1980 census the population of the Seim area is 5057 and the people live in 15 different villages. Newer population figures have not been released. "",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 98994,
  - preferred: 1,
  },
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  - id: 31169,
  - code_id: 10605,
  - speaker_number: "1000-9999",
  - speaker_number_text: "5,700",
  - second_language_speakers: "",
  - semi_speakers: "",
  - children: "",
  - young_adults: "",
  - older_adults: "",
  - elders: "",
  - ethnic_population: "",
  - date_of_info: "2003",
  - public_comment: "(SIL)",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 98650,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
],
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- code_id: 10605,
- featured: 0,
- cached_documentation_score: -1,
- google_group_url: "",
- simplified_level: "mid",
- coordinates: "-3.75, 142.75",
- updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:53",
- speaker_attitude: "",
- government_support: "",
- institutional_support: "",
- _other_languages_used: "",
- domains_of_use: null,
- speakers_worldwide: "<5,057",
- second_language_speakers: null,
- semi_speakers: "",
- children: "",
- young_adults: "",
- older_adults: "",
- elders: "",
- ethnic_population: "5,057",
- speakers_worldwide_year: "",
- bibliography_of_vitality: "",
- bibliography_of_context: "98993",
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- user_submission: null,
- approved: 1,
- speakers_int_cache: 5057,
- has_audio_samples: 0,
- has_document_samples: 0,
- has_image_samples: 0,
- has_guide_samples: 0,
- has_video_samples: 0,
- search_simplified_level: "T",
- user_id: 1,
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    - id: 109,
    - name: "Papua New Guinea",
    - pivot: {
      - language_id: 10605,
      - country_id: 109,
      },
    },
  ],
},

}