Yahadian language
| Yahadian | |
|---|---|
| Nerigo | |
| Native to | West Papua, Indonesia |
| Region | Bird's Head Peninsula |
Native speakers | unknown (500 cited 1991)[1] |
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Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ner |
| Glottolog |
yaha1248[2] |
Yahadian is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua. It is closest to Konda, with which it is 60% similar lexically.
Pronouns
De Vries (2004:147) reports the following pronouns for Yahadian.
| SG | PL | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | né(nigi) | ná(gigi) |
| 2 | é(rigi) | ádigi/adʒigi |
| 3 | mí(gigi) | míginaigi |
References
- de Vries, Lourens. 2004. A Short Grammar of Inanwatan: An endangered language of the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia. (Pacific Linguistics 560). Canberra: Australian National University.
- ↑ Yahadian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yahadian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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