Biksi-Yetfa language
| Biksi-Yetfa | |
|---|---|
| Biksi | |
| Native to | Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
| Region | West Papua |
| Ethnicity | Yetfa, Biksi |
Native speakers | 1,000 (1996)[1] |
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Pauwasi
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| Dialects |
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| Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yet |
| Glottolog |
yetf1238[2] |
Yetfa and Biksi (Biaksi) are dialects of a language spoken in West Papua, Indonesia, and across the border in Papua New Guinea. It's a trade language in West Papua up to the PNG border.
The language is not close to others. Ross (2005), following Laycock & Z’Graggen (1975), places Biksi in its own branch of the Sepik family, but there is little data to base a classification on. The similarities noted by Laycock are sporadic and may simply be loans; Ross based his classification on pronouns, but they are dissimilar enough for the connection to be uncertain. Usher found it to be a Southern Pauwasi language. According to Hammarström (2008), it's being passed on to children and is not in immediate danger.
Pronouns
I nyo we nana thou pwo you so s/he do they dwa
References
- ↑ Biksi-Yetfa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yetfa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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