lang_description: "Dhuwal (ISO 639-3: duj) belongs to the Yolngu group and is spoken by several clans. Djambarrpuyngu (ISO 639-3: djr) is a representative dialect. (AIATSIS)",
public_comment: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1996 census, and "includes 200 Djapu, 160 Liyagalawumirr (clan names)."",
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code_id:6029,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "500",
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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:1881,
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code_id:6029,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "500",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: "1983",
public_comment: "~200 speakers of the Dhuwaya variety.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:88642,
preferred: 0,
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id:12963,
code_id:6029,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
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older_adults: null,
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ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: ""This language is one of the few Australian languages still being spoken by children as a first language. It is also gaining speakers, since speakers of other Aboriginal languages in the region are shifting to Dhuwal as a lingua franca. However, it is still classed as endangered because of the small number of speakers in world terms, and because of continuing government policies which seek to limit its sphere of use."",
private_comment: null,
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code_id:6029,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "3,044",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: "2006",
public_comment: "20 speakers of Datiwuy variety; 500 speakers of Dhuwaya variety; 30 speakers of Marrangu variety.",