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语系：Lower Sepik-Ramu
·濒危
信息不完整 “The Yimas Language of Papua New Guinea” . Foley, William A. (1991) Stanford University Press
信息不完整 “The Yimas Language of Papua New Guinea” . Foley, William A. (1991) Stanford University Press
Tok Pisin
Tok Pisin is the "prestige language".
Sepik river basin area: "two villages along the lower reaches of the Arafundi river, a tributary of the Karawari river, which in turn is a tributary of the main Sepik river"
信息不完整 “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Tok Pisin [tpi]
"East Sepik Province, near Chambri, Arafundi and middle Karawari rivers."
信息不完整 “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
In 1981, 350 speakers were reported. Now there are about 300.
The language is under pressure from larger related languages such as Tabriak (or Karawari), its northern neighbour, and of Tok Pisin which the young speakers tend to prefer.
No literacy
East Sepik Province. Spoken in the southeastern part of the East Sepik Province on the lower Arafundi River, a southern tributary of the middle Karawari River, itself a southern tributary of the middle Sepik River.
信息不完整 “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
信息不完整 “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics
Yimas village