Yeri is an endangered Torricelli language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, about 40 km south-southeast of Aitape. Although Yeri speakers call their village nog?l Yeri ‘Yeri village’, the village is labeled ‘Yapunda’ on most maps. Yeri speakers themselves are not sure why maps refer to their village as Yapunda.
The language is only spoken in a single village of around 100 members. Of those 100 members, the males in the youngest generation only speak Tok Pisin, a language of wider communication in Papua New Guinea. The females in the youngest generation can speak a simplified variety of Yeri, but generally speak Tok Pisin, especially to their children.
Although Yeri speakers call their village nog?l Yeri `Yeri village’, the village is labeled `Yapunda’ on most maps. Yeri speakers themselves are not sure why maps refer to their village as Yapunda.
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FURTHER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
The ISO code is yev. You can link to ethnologue or glottolog for more information, but there’s not a whole lot of information online about the language just yet.
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/yev/***EDITION***
http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yapu1240
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