Yerakai language
| Yerakai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 380 (2000 census)[1] |
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Sepik?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yra |
| Glottolog |
yera1243[2] |
Yerakai (Yerekai) is a Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea. It's highly divergent from other Sepik languages, being only 6% cognate with the Middle Sepik languages it is sometimes classified with. Glottolog leaves it unclassified / as an isolate.[2]
External links
- Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's (DL2) that includes Yerakai language materials.
References
- ↑ Yerakai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yerakai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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