Yuri language (New Guinea)

Karkar-Yuri
Spoken in	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sandaun Province, Amanab District, along the Papua, Indonesia border.
Coordinates	3°44′S 141°5′E
Native speakers	1,142 (1994 SIL).  (date missing)
Language family	Language isolate
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yuj

The Yuri language of Papua New Guinea is not to be confused with the extinct Yuri language of Colombia and Brazil, see Yuri language (Amazon)

A dialect of the Golin language of Papua New Guinea is also known as Yuri

The Yuri language, also known as Karkar, is a language isolate in the Papuan languages classifications of both Wurm and Ross. There are about a thousand speakers in Papua New Guinea along the Indonesian border.

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Karkar-Yuri