Yerakai (Yerekai) is a
Sepik language
The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have ...
spoken in
Sandaun Province
Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the a ...
,
Papua-New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. It is highly divergent from other Sepik languages, being only 6% cognate with other Middle Sepik languages. ''
Glottolog'' leaves it unclassified.
It is spoken in Yerakai () village, Yerakai ward,
Ambunti Rural LLG
Ambunti Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Various Sepik languages are spoken in the LLG.
Wards
*01. Ambunti
*02. Bangus ( Yelogu language speakers)
*03. Waskuk ( Kwoma language speakers)
*04. ...
,
East Sepik Province
East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 433,481 people (2010 census) and is 43,426 km square in size.
History
Cherubim Dambui was appointed as East Sepik's first premier b ...
.
External links
* Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...
has a collection of Don Laycock's
DL2
that includes Yerakai language materials.
References
Middle Sepik languages
Languages of East Sepik Province
Language isolates of New Guinea
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