classification: "Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Oceanic; North New Guinea",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "300",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2000",
public_comment: ""In 1990, 4,780 speakers were reported and language use was vigorous. The 1998 tsunami almost completely annihilated the population. Number of surviving speakers unlikely to exceed a few hundred (Wurm 2007)."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98650,
preferred:1,
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public_comment: "In 1990, 4,776 speakers were reported. Language use was vigorous then. However, in November 1998, a terrible tsunami was caused by a violent sea-quake only 25km off the coast and hit the coast with tremendous force, almost completely annihilating the population within the disaster area. There were only very few survivors, and almost the only speakers left were those who happened to be absent from the disaster area. It is hard to estimate the number of surviving speakers, but it is unlikely to exceed a few hundred or so.",