Yerakai language
| Yerakai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 380 (2000 census)[1] |
Sepik
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yra |
| Glottolog | yera1243 |
| ELP | Yerakai |
| Coordinates: 4°16′49″S 142°55′27″E / 4.280234°S 142.924084°E | |
Yerakai (Yerekai) is a Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea. It is highly divergent from other Sepik languages, being only 6% cognate with other Middle Sepik languages. Glottolog leaves it unclassified.[2]
It is spoken in Yerakai (4°16′49″S 142°55′27″E / 4.280234°S 142.924084°E) village, Yerakai ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][3]
External links
- Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's (DL2) that includes Yerakai language materials.
References
- ^ a b Yerakai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Yerakai". Glottolog 4.3.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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