Yahadian is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
of the
Bird's Head Peninsula
The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: , , meaning Bird's Head in Indonesian and Dutch) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai'') is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indones ...
of
Southwest Papua
Southwest Papua (; ) is the 38th provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia to be created, and was split off from West Papua (province), West Papua on 8 December 2022. Despite being named "southwest", this is actually a misnomer and this prov ...
. It is spoken in Yahadian village, Kais District,
South Sorong Regency
South Sorong Regency () is a regency of Southwest Papua province of Indonesia. It has an area of 6,570.23 km2, and had a population of 37,900 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 52,469 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Sta ...
.
[
Yahadian is closest to ]Konda
Konda may refer to:
*Kondia or Konda, 18th century Mansi principality, Russia
*Konda (river) in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia
*Konda (Vitim), river in Buryatia, Russia
*Konda, South Konawe, a kecamatan in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. ...
, with which it is 60% similar lexically.
Pronouns
De Vries (2004:147) reports the following pronouns for Yahadian.
External links
* Paradisec has an open access collection from Bert Voorhoeve
Clemens Lambertus Voorhoeve (born 1930; also known as "Bert" Voorhoeve) is a Dutch linguist who specializes in Papuan languages.
Education
He completed his higher education in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in linguistics at Leiden Universi ...
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includes Yahadian language materials
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.
Konda–Yahadian languages
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