Yaul language

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Yaul
Ulwa
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
700 (2018)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yla
Glottologyaul1241
ELPUlwa

Yaul, also known as Ulwa, is a severely endangered Keram language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken fluently by fewer than 700 people and semi-fluently by around 1,250 people in four villages of the Angoram District of the East Sepik Province: Manu, Maruat, Dimiri, and Yaul.

According to Barlow (2018), speakers in Maruat, Dimiri, and Yaul villages speak similar versions of Ulwa, while those in Manu speak a considerably different version. Thus, he postulates that there are two different dialects of Ulwa.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Yaul at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Barlow (2018)

Sources[edit]

  • Barlow, Russell (2018). A Grammar of Ulwa (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. hdl:10125/62506.
  • Barlow R (2023). A grammar of Ulwa (Papua New Guinea) (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8094859. ISBN 9783961104154.

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