Glottolog 4.8 - Marori

Spoken L1 Language: Marori

Family membership references

Stephen A. Wurm 1975

Comments on family membership

Wurm's arguments Stephen A. Wurm 1975: 327-335 for a Trans-Fly assignment are not convincing as the only argument appears to be unreliable lexicostatistical calculations.

Endangerment

AES status:: shifting
Source:: Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:: Marori (2719-mok) = Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (According to the villagers in Wasur, there is no other place where people speak the Morori language. There are less than ten families living in Wasur, and young people and children cannot speak Morori. It is almost dying out. They reported that they could understand some Marind and Kanum.)
(see Lebold; and Kriens 2009)