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4789 (Suba) {
id: 4789 , code_val: "sxb ", code_authorities: "ISO 639-3 ", primary_name: "Suba ", alternate_names: "Olusuba ", lang_description: "", classification: "Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo; Benue-Congo; Southern Bantoid ", dialect_varieties: "Kaksingri; Wiregi; Ungoe; Mfangano; Gwasi; Muhuru; Suna; ", public_comment: "", private_comment: null, source_id: 89800 , speakers: [ { id: 9037 , code_id: 4789 , speaker_number: "100000 ", speaker_number_text: "174,000 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: "2007 ", public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 1511 , preferred: 1 , { id: 9038 , code_id: 4789 , speaker_number: "100000 ", speaker_number_text: "100,000 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: null, public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 1521 , preferred: 0, { id: 17353 , code_id: 4789 , speaker_number: null, speaker_number_text: ">2,200 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: "1999 ", public_comment: ""The Government of Kenya’s population census, conducted in 1999, indicates that the number of monolingual speakers is 2,200." ", private_comment: null, source_id: 90224 , preferred: 0, { id: 17872 , code_id: 4789 , speaker_number: "10000-99999 ", speaker_number_text: null, second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: "59668 ", date_of_info: "1979 ", public_comment: ""The observations made here are restricted to the Kenyan situation, although the Suba/Luo settlement area extends across the border into Tanzania... In Kenya, there were according to the 1979 Population Census 59.668 Suba (Abasuba) [...] 88.1%% [in a survey] claimed competence in Suba (99.1%% in Dholuo). We assume, however, that such competence must be ranged on a a wide scale since only half of the sample claimed to have learned Suba as their first language. This relatively low figure may be partly due to a misunderstanding of the question." ", private_comment: null, source_id: 74821 , preferred: 0, { id: 18440 , code_id: 4789 , speaker_number: null, speaker_number_text: null, second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: "76668 ", date_of_info: null, public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 79099 , preferred: 0, { id: 23354 , code_id: 4789 , speaker_number: null, speaker_number_text: null, second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, date_of_info: null, public_comment: null, private_comment: null, source_id: 93900 , preferred: 0, language: { code_id: 4789 , featured: 0, cached_documentation_score: -1 , google_group_url: "", simplified_level: "low ", coordinates: "-.9942, 34.519 ", updated_at: "2018-03-29 20:33:20 ", speaker_attitude: null, government_support: null, institutional_support: null, _other_languages_used: null, domains_of_use: null, speakers_worldwide: "174,000 ", second_language_speakers: null, semi_speakers: null, children: null, young_adults: null, older_adults: null, elders: null, ethnic_population: null, speakers_worldwide_year: "2007 ", bibliography_of_vitality: "", bibliography_of_context: "1511 ", bibliography_of_locations: "1521 ", user_submission: null, approved: 1 , speakers_int_cache: 174000 , has_audio_samples: 0, has_document_samples: 0, has_image_samples: 0, has_guide_samples: 2 , has_video_samples: 1 , search_simplified_level: "AR ", user_id: 1 , code_val_cache: "sxb ", has_link_samples: 1 , submission_source_info: null, countries: [ { id: 147 , name: "Kenya ", pivot: { language_id: 4789 , country_id: 147 , { id: 152 , name: "Tanzania ", pivot: { language_id: 4789 , country_id: 152 , }