Talk:Mbabaram language
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[edit] Is Mbabaram extinct?
Ethnologue says there were 2 speakers left in 1981. The article says the last native speaker died in 1972. Who's right? And if the former, are they still alive today? --Ptcamn 16:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- I believe the account in the article is the correct one. I think what's going on is that in 1981, Ethnologue consulted the literature to find out how many speakers there were, and at that time all the available literature was from before 1972. And since then, Ethnologue has not update its entry on Mbabaram. I'll poke around a little bit to be sure. I wonder if it would be inappropriate to ask Dixon; that might be a bit too much like Wikipedia doing original research. Thanks for adding the language box, Ptcamn! ACW 21:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Mr. Bennett's first name
Is it Arthur or Albert? Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages gives it as Arthur, and googling <"Arthur Bennett" Mbabaram> gets about 300 hits. But a 1966 journal article by Dixon gives his name as Albert, as does his book Memoirs of a Field Worker, at least as quoted by languagehat. <"Albert Bennett" Mbabaram> gets only 4 hits. --Ptcamn 05:09, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
