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.^[3]^[4]

External links

Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's (DL2) that includes Yerakai language materials.

References

^ Yerakai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Cite error: The named reference Glottolog was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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[e18-1] Yerakai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Glottolog-2] Cite error: The named reference Glottolog was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Ethnologue22-PNG-3] Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

[UN-PNG-4] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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