public_comment: "The Arafundi languages are closely related, possibly forming a dialect chain. In the Catalogue they are classified as three languages, but this is not the only possible categorization.
Ethnologue (18th edition) includes two entries that correspond to what Laycock (1973) identifies as Alfendio: Nanubae [afk] and Tapei [afp].",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:31329,
code_id:10642,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "633",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1970",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98902,
preferred:1,
},
{
id:31330,
code_id:10642,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,560",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2005",
public_comment: ""Nanubae" [afk] is listed as having 1,270 speakers (2005 SIL); "Tapei" [afp] is listed as having 290 speakers (2005 SIL).",