Yahadian language

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Yahadian
Nerigo
Native to West Papua, Indonesia
Region Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers
unknown (500 cited 1991)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
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.
  1. Yahadian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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