Yeresiam language

Yeresiam
Iresim
Native to Indonesia
Region West Papua
Native speakers
70 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ire
Glottolog ires1239[2]

Yeresiam or Iresim is an Austronesian language in the putative Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) of Indonesian Papua. It is not closely related to other languages.

References

  1. Yeresiam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Iresim". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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