ISO 639-3 · szwszw
Austronesian family
Sawai
Sawai is a language of the South Halmahera branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata counts about 12,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “language in Maluku”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
szw- Glottocode
sawa1247- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- Wikipedia
- 11 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
7levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sawai |
|---|---|
| Also called | Sawai language |
| All speakers | 12,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Sawai
The branches above Sawai, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Indonesia
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing