public_comment: "Some scholars believe there is only a single Sumo [Sum] language; others hold that there are two separate languages; Mayangna [yan] and Ulwa [ulw].",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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code_id:6199,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "7,400",
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older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1982",
public_comment: "In Honduras: 700 speakers, ethnic population 800-1,000. In Nicaragua: 6,700 speakers.
Ethnologue (2009) had only a single Sumo [Sum] language; Ethnologue (2013) has separated these into two separate languages:
Mayangna [yan]: 8,000 in Nicaragua (Adelaar 2007). Population total all countries: 8,700. Ethnic population: 9,760 (2005 census).
Ulwa [ulw]: 350 (2009 J. Mejia).",
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speaker_number_text: "7,000?",
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date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "Hale and Salamanca (2001) distinguish varieties of Sumu: northern Mayangna, with the Twahka and Panamahka dialects, and southern Ulwa, finding the two (northern and southern) sufficiently different to be considered distinct languages.",