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Yareba

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: yrb

Population	750 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
Region	Oro Province, Popondetta District.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 16, reference number 751
Alternate names	Middle Musa
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Southeast Papuan, Yareban
Language use	Also use Hiri Motu [hmo].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 75%–100%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1973.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

MCELHANON, Kenneth A., editor. 1974. Legends from Papua New Guinea.

WEIMER, Harry, author. 1972. "Yareba verb morphology."

WEIMER, Harry, author. 1992. Yareba Organised Phonology Data.  

WEIMER, Harry, author. Available: 2006; Created: 1963. Six Yareba texts.  

WEIMER, Harry, author. Available: 2006; Created: 1978-04. Comparative grammar of 5 Yareban family languages.  

WEIMER, Harry; WEIMER, Natalia, authors. 1970. "Reduplication in Yareba."

WEIMER, Harry; WEIMER, Natalia, authors. 1972. "Yareba phonemes."

WEIMER, Harry; WEIMER, Natalia, authors. 1974. "Yareba."

WEIMER, Harry; WEIMER, Natalia, authors. 1975. "A short sketch of Yareba grammar."

WEIMER, Harry; WEIMER, Natalia, authors. Available: 2006; Created: 1977-02. Phoneme comparisons of the Yareban languages.  

WEIMER, Harry; WEIMER, Natalia, compilers. 1974. Yareba language.

Vernacular Publications

Afirika orofa danu egi. 1966.

Dobereta amara danu ure aneta. 1971.

Fafua Niugini disiriki. 1974.

Fafua Niugini uwara. 1973.

Owawa ueta buka. 1973.

Teacher’s guide for Yareba primer and workbook. 1973.

Yareba 1-3. 1964.

Yareba 4-6. 1966.

Yawie iwata ueta buka. 1972.