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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Karkar-Yuri

Karkar-Yuri

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3yuj

Population  1,140 (1994 SIL).
Region  Sandaun Province, Amanab District, Papua, Indonesia border area.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 3, reference number 72
Alternate names   Karkar, Yuri
Dialects  North Central Yuri, Auia-Tarauwi, Usari.
Classification  Pauwasi, Eastern
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. NT: 1994.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SOV. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Karkar Yuri Organised Phonology Data.  Available online

PRICE, Dorothy, author. 1987. "Some Karkar-Yuri orthography and spelling decisions."  Available online

PRICE, Dorothy, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Set rhetorical predicates in Karkar.  Available online

PRICE, Dorothy, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1987. Characteristics of discourse types in Karkar.  Available online

PRICE, Dorothy, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1987. Pluralization in Karkar-Yuri - phonological aspect.  Available online

PRICE, Dorothy, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1981. Determining stress in Karkar.  Available online

RIGDEN, Veda, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1986. Karkar-Yuri grammar cohesion referentials.  Available online

RIGDEN, Veda, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1986. Karkar-Yuri grammar relators.  Available online

RIGDEN, Veda, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1985. Karkar - Yuri grammar: prominence.  Available online

Vernacular Publications

Ant kɨkɨr kar. 1986.

Fɨraomp kar. 1986.

Kumwi kánanke ounounkoup mwanomp. 1986.

Kumwi nkea farákáp mwanomp: Buk kananke namba 1-3. 1986.

Kumwi nkea mér mwanámp. 1994.

Kumwi nkea mér mwanomp. 1986.

Tafaomp séraro. 1986.