lang_description: "Note on Australian languages with no known speakers: For some languages, we haven't been able to confirm speaker numbers. In other cases, there isn't anyone who has grown up speaking the language, but there are still people who identify with the language, and who are working to revitalize their languages. We've chosen to include these languages in the Catalogue for this reason.",
classification: "Iwaidjan",
dialect_varieties: "Iwaydja;",
public_comment: "Most of the languages of the group are extinct or threatened with imminent extinction, and only two – Iwaidja and Maung – have speech communities large enough to ensure daily use by a full age range including children. (DoBeS)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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id:925,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "150",
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: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from N. Evans (2000).",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:926,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "200",
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,
},
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id:927,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "150",
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:1881,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:928,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "150",
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: "Evans expresses hope about young learners: "more data from younger learners of Iwaidja would be very revealing."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:2401,
preferred:1,
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id:4451,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
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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:946,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:10502,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "~200",
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:10030,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:11207,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "~150",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: "1983",
public_comment: ""In 1983, 180 speakers were reported... The speaker numbers are lower today, about 150..."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:414,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:11391,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "134",
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: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:585,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:11442,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "380",
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:88642,
preferred: 0,
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id:12824,
code_id:981,
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:89000,
preferred: 0,
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{
id:16092,
code_id:981,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "<200",
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: ""Iwaidja is a highly endangered language spoken by perhaps less than 200 people. A far greater number of people understand the language, can partially speak it, or identify with it as their ancestral language"",