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Name: Shwai

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Shirumba; Shuway; Ludumor; Cwaya

Spoken in: Sudan

Number of speakers: 3,500 (1989) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 3500 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 3500 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: shw

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)

Parent Subgroup: Shirumba (shrb)

Child Dialects: Ndano (shw-nda) Shabun (shw-sha) Cerumba; Shirumba (shw-cer)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Critically endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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