public_comment: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1982).",
private_comment: null,
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older_adults: null,
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public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
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id:12304,
code_id:4327,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "2,500-3,500",
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children: null,
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ethnic_population: "~3600",
date_of_info: "1982",
public_comment: ""According to the Ethnologue (SIL), in 1982 the Jimi-speaking population numbered 3,500. The Catholic priest who lives in Bourrah estimates the present total population to be 2,500. Self-reporting during our group interviews in two villages revealed there to be about 600 residents in Mijimi and 800 in Mbola."",