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		It is spoken in one ward of the Niger Delta town of Nkoroo (Bonny LGA Rivers State, southeast of Port Harcourt), and the small isolated settlement of Iwoma Nkoroo, near Kono, an Ogoni town.
		Nkoroo is spoken principally in Nkoroo town and a few outlying hamlets.
		For both the Defaka and the Nkoroo, English and Nigerian Pidgin are the primary public languages, a situation that has been imposed by economic and political pressures.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /langdoc/EGA/Proposals/Ega-proposal2 (7499 words)

	BABELWORDS-Defaka
		Their âneighborsâ are, as well as the Nkoroo (with which they have a good relationship), the Ogoni and the Obolo.
		It was this close contact with the Nkoroo that partly eroded the Defaka language: paradoxically good relations with this population have led to the Defaka culture, in reality very close to the Nkoroo, being absorbed and that the children began to grow up speaking the Nkoroo language as a first language.
		Contamination, both on Iwoma Island and in Nkoroo, were inevitable and a hierarchy of the three languages has naturally formed and has ended up penalizing Defaka.
	www.benettontalk.com /opencms/opencms/benettontalk/en/min_0001/con_0006/art_0002.html (389 words)

	Defaka: UNESCO-CI
		Nigeria, Rivers State, Bonny District, in the Niger Delta, town of Nkoroo, and in the small isolated settlement of Iwoma Nkoroo, near Kono, an Ogoni town.
		Nowadays, the Defaka speech community speaks Nkoroo as their first language, but most if not all Defaka are also fluent in Nigerian Pidgin and English, as well as in other neighbouring languages.
		The Defaka language is only spoken by a small and diminishing number of speakers.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=9869&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (314 words)

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		Even among those 70 and over, 14 percent of men and 7 percent of women were working in 2005, up from 10 percent and 4 percent, respectively, in '93.
		The looming extinction of Defaka, Nkoroo, Tsafiki, Edo and some 3,000 other obscure languages around the world has spurred the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation to distribute about $5 million this year to scholars to document and preserve some of those endangered tongues.
		Top priorities are documenting Northern Haida, a language of Alaska and British Columbia with just 14 remaining speakers, and Washo, an American Indian language spoken by only 20 elderly people scattered near the Nevada-California border.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /saturdayspin/277621_washcoll15.html (353 words)

	African Press Agency - Item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Africa has the highest concentration of disappearing languages, according to UNESCO.
		Akinbiyi Akinlabi of Rutgers University received a grant to document Defaka, which has only 200 speakers, and Nkoroo, a related language that has 5,000 speakers.
		According to him “no language should be allowed to die out without being scientifically documented.
	www.apanews.net /article_eng.php3?id_article=16292 (367 words)

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