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Date of estimate?

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2023-01-01 03:44
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ISO 639-3: 
ktl

1992? Per: https://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_language/ktl/

Editorial Action

We will add a bibliographic source for the comment for the L1 speaker population of Koroshi [ktl] in Iran, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Thu, 2023-01-19 09:41

Dear Antoine,

Again, I have no record of the source of the information in the Ethnologue for Koroshi [ktl] in Iran. The source of the information "40 -- 50 families" comes from Borjian 2014, which I can add to our bibliography and put it in here.

To cite Borjian: "Their population was initially estimated as forty to fifty families (Mahamedi 1979), then as two hundred households (Salāmi, op. cit .), but the emerging data suggest even more. Even so, as the Korosh no longer live in their traditional tribal context and because of the predominance of Persian education and media, Koroshi should be regarded as an endangered language."

A comment in the database has "160-- 200", so I believe that the 160 speaker population was somehow extrapolated from Borjian's "40 to 50 families".

So, I will add a source and date for Koroshi.

Best wishes,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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