Yerakai language

Yerakai
Yerakai
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	East Sepik Province
Native speakers	380 (2000 census)
Language family	Sepik Middle Sepik Ndu–Yerekai Yerakai; ; ;
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 / -4.280234; 142.924084 (Yerakai)) 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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[e25-1] Yerakai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Yerakai". Glottolog 4.3.

[UN-PNG-3] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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