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ALSO KNOWN AS		Oubi
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, East Chadic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ubi
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Information from: “A sociolinguistic survey of the Ubi language of Chad” (25) . Hutchinson, Noelle and Johnson, Eric (2006) SIL International

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1,500
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2001

DOMAINS OF USE

TRANSMISSION

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"The Baggo [village] group were confident that the children would still be speaking Ubi when they are married and have their own children, but the Gantoura [village] men said they would speak then a mixture of Ubi and Arabic."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Arabic; Bidiyo; Daju;

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"In the home domain, with spouse and children, both of the groups reported that only Ubi is used... At the village level, with friends, in the fields, and in the market, Ubi is also widely used, though not exclusively."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,100
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,100
Native speakers worldwide
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(SIL)

DATE OF INFO: 1995

Scripts (Writing system): Latin

PLACES: Chad

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Guéra region: Guéra department, Mongo subprefecture, southwest of Tounkoul, Oubi village area."

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,100
Native speakers worldwide

	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	1,100		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)						12.1534, 18.6946
	18th	2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition			Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig	SIL International	Dallas, Texas	http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.		1,100	1995	1000-9999	(SIL)				Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Chad	"Guéra region: Guéra department, Mongo subprefecture, southwest of Tounkoul, Oubi village area."
SIL electronic survey reports (SILESR), #2006-002		2006	A sociolinguistic survey of the Ubi language of Chad	25	Report based on a survey done in 2001.		SIL International			Hutchinson, Noelle and Johnson, Eric	Hutchinson, Noelle and Eric Johnson. 2006. "A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Ubi Language of Chad." 25. SIL International.	EBALL	~1,500	2001	1000-9999		Arabic; Bidiyo; Daju;	"In the home domain, with spouse and children, both of the groups reported that only Ubi is used... At the village level, with friends, in the fields, and in the market, Ubi is also widely used, though not exclusively."	All	Vulnerable (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	10	"The Baggo [village] group were confident that the children would still be speaking Ubi when they are married and have their own children, but the Gantoura [village] men said they would speak then a mixture of Ubi and Arabic."	12
			World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		1,100		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Ubi

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Language information by source

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~1,500

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,100

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,100

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,100

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Ubi

Language metadata

Language information by source

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~1,500

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,100

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,100

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,100

Discussion

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