Spoken L1 Language: Ruga

Subclassification references
Comments on subclassification

Robbins Burling 2008 Wood, Daniel Cody 2008

AES status:
nearly extinct
Source:
Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:
Ruga (5350-ruh) = Critically Endangered (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available) ("[T]he Ruga language now appears to be moribund. A few older people can still speak what they consider to be Ruga, but the speech of those I have met is heavily influenced by Garo, and the remaining speakers admit that they are more comfortable with Garo than with Ruga. They lack the fluency that they remember in their parents. Their children, they tell me, speak only Garo, though they may understand the Ruga of the older people. I doubt if anyone born after 1950 would claim to be able to speak Ruga." (p.11-12))

(see Burling 2004)

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