Pei
[aka Pai]Classification: Unclassified
·severely endangered
Classification: Unclassified
·severely endangered
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Information from: “Some language and sociolinguistic relationships in the Upper Sepik region of Papua New Guinea” (243-273) . Conrad, Robert J. and Ronald K. Lewis (1988) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
"A number of people have died from illness, which probably accounts for the higher population figure of 208 given in Laycock (1973)."
Yahapiri
Tok Pisin
"The adult Pai male speakers know a trade language named Yahapiri by means of which they communicate with Walio speakers and also the Sepik Iwam speakers at Hauna. The younger generation knows Yahapiri to a very limited extent, and we predict it will die out and eventually be replaced by Tok Pisin."
The majority of speakers "live in the village of Pei, which is a resettlement area on a large hill (hummock) in the midst of a sago swamp. Pei consists of all the former residents of Pi No. 1 and Pi No.2. Another group lives at Paru, on the tributary of the Wogamus River between Biaga and Sio."
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
5 villages: Malibutuni, Meiwini, Neiyaro, Pi No. 1, and Pi No. 2.
Information from: “LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)” . Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie (2012)
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Tok Pisin [tpi]
Walio [wla]
"East Sepik Province, Ambunti-Dreikikir district, Hauna village and Walio river."