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Teanu > LINGUIST List Language Search

Name: Teanu
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Buma; Puma
Spoken in: Solomon Islands
Number of speakers: 520 (2007 A. Francois) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 600 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 24 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: tkw
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Austronesian
Parent Subgroup: Utupua-Vanikoro; Eastern Outer Islands (eois)

Endangerment Status


Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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