public_comment: "Lokono has two mutually intelligible dialects. Western Lokono (or Guyanese Lokono) is spoken in Guyana, and Eastern Lokono (or Surinamese Lokono) in Suriname and French Guiana. (Rybka 2015)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "2,450",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "700 in Suriname (1980 census). The number of speakers is decreasing. The ethnic population in Suriname: 2,051 (1980 census).
(Unchanged 2016.)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
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speaker_number_text: "2,750",
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public_comment: null,
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older_adults: null,
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date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
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},
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id:5466,
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~2,250",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "17,500",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:7831,
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},
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id:8662,
code_id:1708,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "2,505-2,705",
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semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "19,428",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "There are 1500 speakers among an ethnic population of 15500 people in Guyana, 500-700 speakers among an ethnic population of 2000 people in Suriname, 375 speakers out of a total ethnic population of 1500 people in French Guiana and 130 speakers out of a total ethnic population of 428 people in Venezuela.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:88218,
preferred: 0,
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id:13395,
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speaker_number_text: null,
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older_adults: null,
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public_comment: null,
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code_id:1708,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "<2,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "A sizeable community",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2009",
public_comment: ""Both the number of ethnic Lokono (i.e., the total ethnic population), and the percentage of Lokono speakers in the three Guianas are hard to estimate... Based on long-term fieldwork and collaboration with Lokono organizations from the three Guianas since 2009, I conclude that the figures today are much lower [than the previously estimated speaker count of ~2,000]. The percentage of fluent speakers, that is, speakers who have an active knowledge of many linguistic domains, is around 5% of the ethnic population. There is a sizeable community of semispeakers possessing different degrees of passive knowledge, but very few people can actually speak Lokono."",
speaker_attitude: ""In the settlements themselves in all three countries, there is support for language revitalization, especially among the adult ethnic Lokono who do not speak the language anymore (including the expatriates in the Netherlands). However, not many Lokono actively participate in the attempts at revitalizing the language. The Lokono are not ashamed anymore of speaking their language publicly, although this hardly ever happens due to the limited number of fluent speakers."",
government_support: "Limited",
institutional_support: "",
_other_languages_used: "",
domains_of_use: "Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.",