Yerakai language

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.[3]

Yerakai
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
380 (2000 census)[1]
Sepik
Language codes
ISO 639-3yra
Glottologyera1243
ELPYerakai[2]
Coordinates: 4.280234°S 142.924084°E / -4.280234; 142.924084 (Yerakai)

It is spoken in Yerakai (4.280234°S 142.924084°E / -4.280234; 142.924084 (Yerakai)) village, Yerakai ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[4][5]

References

  1. Yerakai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Yerakai.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Yerakai". Glottolog 4.3.
  4. 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.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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