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Lakes Plain languages

Lakes Plain is a language family with 14 languages profiled on Glottosphere, spoken in Papunesia. The largest by number of speakers are Fayu, Tause, and Biritai. 14 of them are listed as endangered.

LanguageCountriesSpeakersStatus
FayuIndonesia400Threatened
TauseIndonesia300Endangered
BiritaiIndonesia250Endangered
KaiyIndonesia250Endangered
KirikiriIndonesia250Endangered
FoauIndonesia230Endangered
RasawaIndonesia200Endangered
WaritaiIndonesia150Endangered
TawortaIndonesia140Endangered
ObokuitaiIndonesia120Endangered
AweraIndonesia100Endangered
DoutaiIndonesia70Severely Endangered
KwerisaIndonesia32Severely Endangered
SaponiIndonesia4Critically Endangered

Classification and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status: Endangered Languages Project. Only languages with a profile here are listed, so the family may have more members.