Yaul language
| Yaul | |
|---|---|
| Ulwa | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2003)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yla |
| Glottolog | yaul1241 |
| ELP | Ulwa |
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 the 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
- ^ Yaul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Barlow (2018)
- Barlow, Russell (2018). A Grammar of Ulwa (PDF) (phd thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. hdl:10125/62506.
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External links
- Language materials from the Ulwa [yla] language of East Sepik recorded by Russell Barlow and archived with Kaipuleohone
- Paradisec has two collections with Yaul materials, including Don Laycock's DL2 collection, and JM1