Yerakai language
{{Short description|Sepik language of Papua-New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Yerakai
|states=Papua New Guinea
|region=East Sepik Province
|coordinates={{coord|-4.280234|142.924084|type:city_region:PG_source:enwiki|name=Yerakai|display=inline,title}}
|speakers=380
|date=2000 census
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Sepik
|fam2=Middle Sepik
|fam3=Ndu–Yerekai
|iso3=yra
|glotto=yera1243
|glottorefname=Yerakai
}}
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.{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Yerakai | work = Glottolog 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yera1243}}
It is spoken in Yerakai ({{coord|-4.280234|142.924084|type:city_region:PG|name=Yerakai}}) village, Yerakai ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.{{cite web |url=https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |title=Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup |author=United Nations in Papua New Guinea |work=Humanitarian Data Exchange |version=1.31.9 |date=2018}}
External links
- Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's ([http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/DL2 DL2]) that includes Yerakai language materials.
References
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{{Sepik languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}
Category:Middle Sepik languages
Category:Languages of East Sepik Province
Category:Unclassified languages of New Guinea
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