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Name:
Wave
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Huave; Huave, San Francisco del Mar; San Francisco; Wavi
Spoken in:
Mexico
Number of speakers:
900 (1990 census). 30%–40% monolingual in old village. Ethnic population: 3,900 (1990 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
6874
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
900
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
hue
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
Wave; Huave; Huavean; Wavi (huav)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Vulnerable
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