Yuri language (New Guinea)
- Yuri language (New Guinea)
Infobox Language
name=Karkar-Yuri
states=Papua New Guinea
region=Sandaun Province, Amanab District, along the Papua, Indonesia border.
latd=3 |latm=44 |latNS=S
longd=141 |longm=5 |longEW=E
speakers=1,142 (1994 SIL).
iso3=yuj
familycolor=Papuan
fam1=Language Isolate
notice=nonotice
:"The Yuri language of Papua New Guinea is not to be confused with the extinct Yuri language of Colombia and Brazil, see Yuri language (Amazon)":"A dialect of the Golin language of Papua New Guinea is also known as Yuri "
The Yuri language, also known as Karkar, is a language isolate in the Papuan languages classifications of both Wurm and Ross. There are about a thousand speakers in Papua New Guinea along the Indonesian border.
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yuj Ethnologue entry for Karkar-Yuri]
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