dialect_varieties: "Menggwa Dla (Duka-Ekor); Dera (Dla proper)",
public_comment: "Laycock (1973) lists two separate languages--Dera (Dra) and Duka-Ekor--although all data from the latter come from Voorhoeve (1971), citing Galis (1956). These are, however, mutually intelligible dialects of the same language (de Sousa 2006).",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:31460,
code_id:10674,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,200",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""There are around 300 Dla people on the West Papuan side, including around 60 Menggwa Dla people, and around 900 people on the Papua New Guinean side, including around 140 Menggwa Dla people."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:99034,
preferred:1,
},
{
id:31461,
code_id:10674,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,690",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1987",
public_comment: "1,000 in Indonesia (1987 SIL)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98650,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:31462,
code_id:10674,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,704",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1956, 1970",
public_comment: ""Dera" is listed as having 1,474 speakers; "Duka-Ekor" is cited as having 230 speakers (Voorhoeve 1971, citing Galis 1956).",