Yoke
[aka Yoki, Yauke, Jauke]Classification: Lower Mamberamo
·endangered
Classification: Lower Mamberamo
·endangered
Yoki, Yauke, Jauke, Pauwi, Pauwi I, Pauwi II |
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Lower Mamberamo |
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Information from: “Survey Report of the North Coast of Irian Jaya” . Clouse, Duane; Mark Donohue; and Felix Ma (2002) SIL International
"There are estimated to be not more than two hundred Yoke speakers. The village of Mantarbori has about fourteen family units (KK). The village of Yoke has about thirty family units."
"In the village of Mantarbori, the vernacular is used almost exclusively by adults among themselves and when speaking to children. Children, however, use Malay almost exclusively with each other, at school, and when talking with their parents. Adults speaking with outsiders use Malay exclusively. In church, the language used depends upon the religious worker, though most use a mixture of languages. It is very likely that in the village of Yoke, in the interior, vernacular language use is even stronger with children using it."
Malay
Warembori
"Contact with the Warembori people is frequent, and many of the people are bilingual in these two related languages."
"The people in Mantarbori have attempted to write their language and claim to do so in the form of letters. Generally, there was a positive attitude toward being involved in vernacular language development."
"Yoke is the language of the village of Mantarbori, and the inland area around the village of Yoke. Historically, the Yoke report having occupied the villages of Kapeso and Suaseso on the northern edge of Lake Rombebai, but this land is currently occupied by Bagusa speakers."
Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge
It seems that it is under pressure from the larger Warembori language which is also a language isolate.
Warembori
No literacy in it.
Spoken on the east side of the mouth of the Mamberamo River, on the western coast of non-peninsular Irian Jaya.
Spoken on the west side of the lower Mamber- amo River by Lake Rombebai, in the northeast of non-pensinular Irian Jaya.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)” . Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig · Dallas, Texas: SIL International
"Vigorous. Religious services. All ages."
Indonesian
Warembori
Used as L2 by Warembori.