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Classification: Isolate
·threatened
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Yetfa, Biaksi, Biksi, Inisine |
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
"Papua Province, Pegunungan Bintang regency, Okbibab subdistrict, border area east and north of Sobger river, south of Ji mountain."
Information from: “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics
4 villages: Afene, Kwutiye, Rapre, and Raru.
Information from: “The status of the least documented language families in the world” (177-212) . Hammarström, Harald (2010)
Information from: “Language isolates in the New Guinea region” . Harald Hammarström (2017) , Lyle Campbell, Thomas Dougherty, and Alexander D. Smith · London: Routledge
"Despite only having some 1,000 native speakers, the language is spoken as an L2 by even smaller neighbouring ethnic groups."
Sobger River
"Spoken by two ethnic groups totalling some 1000 L1 speakers in the border area east and north of the Sobger river."