Yahadian language

Yabin language spoken in Indonesia
Yahadian
Yahadian-Mugim
Native toSouthwest Papua, Indonesia
RegionKampung Yahadian, Kais District and Kampung Mugim, Matemani District, South Sorong Regency in the Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers
(500 cited 1991)[1]
Language family
Trans–New Guinea
  • Berau Gulf
    • Yabin
      • Yahadian
Language codes
ISO 639-3ner
Glottologyaha1248

Yahadian is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of Southwest Papua. It is spoken in Yahadian village, Kais District, South Sorong Regency.[1]

Yahadian is closest to Konda, with which it is 60% similar lexically.

Pronouns

De Vries (2004:147) reports the following pronouns for Yahadian.

singular plural
1st person né(nigi) ná(gigi)
2nd person é(rigi) ádigi/adʒigi
3rd person mí(gigi) míginaigi
  • Paradisec has an open access collection from Bert Voorhoeve that includes Yahadian language materials

References

  1. ^ a b Yahadian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  • 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.


Inanwatan–Duriankere
  • Duriankere
  • Inanwatan
Konda–Yahadian
  • Konda
  • Yahadian
Nuclear South Bird's Head


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