Meoswar in Indonesia

Speakers

613

Type

Location

Meoswar in Indonesia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Meoswar in Indonesia

Size

613

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Comments
Roswar (Saref) is one of local languages in West Papua Province, Indonesia

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
The villages of Waprak, Nordiwar, Yomber, and Syeiwar, Roswar Subdistrict (in Roswar Island), Teluk Wondama Regency, Papua Barat Province.

Size / Number of users

Number of users

613
Source
Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics of Teluk Bintuni Regency)
Year
2010

Users within total population

Less than 1% use the language

Users within the reference community

Less than 10% use the language
Actual percentage
2
Source
Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics of Teluk Bintuni Regency)
Year
2010

Age distribution of users

0
0
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

The Roswar vitality documentation report conducted by Agency for Language Development and Cultivation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, Research and Technology (2013)

Year
2013
Comments

According to Roswar vitality documentation, the number of young Roswar generation is 175 in the villages of Waprak and Nordiwar.
The age distribution of speakers throughout the Roswar community has not been recorded yet.

Age distribution of users

0
0
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

0
0
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

50
50
613
Reduced among young generations
Source

Result of Population Census 2010 (BPS-Statistics of Teluk Bintuni Regency);
The Roswar vitality documentation report conducted by Agency for Language Development and Cultivation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, Research and Technology (2013).

Year
2010

Educational attainment

Primary education
Source

The Roswar vitality documentation report conducted by Agency for Language Development and Cultivation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, Research and Technology (2013).

Comments

In general, the highest education level of the Roswar community is elementary school.

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Source

The Roswar vitality documentation report conducted by Agency for Language Development and Cultivation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, Research and Technology (2013).

Comments

Most of the people of Roswar work as fishermen and farmers.

Language competence

Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

No one with literacy in the language

Digital use

No digital language use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
The result of language mapping in Indonesia conducted by Agency for Language Development and Cultivation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, Research and Technology (2019)
Comments
Roswar or Saref is spoken in the villages of Waprak, Nordiwar, Yomber, and Syeiwar, Roswar District in Roswar Island, Teluk Wondama Regency, West Papua Province.

Economic dimension

Economic scope
  • Quinary sector
  • Quaternary sector
  • Tertiary sector
  • Secondary sector
  • Primary sector
  • Language not used

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Completion