Yahadian language

Yahadian
Yahadian-Mugim
Native to	Southwest Papua, Indonesia
Region	Kampung Yahadian, Kais District and Kampung Mugim, Matemani District, South Sorong Regency in the Bird's Head Peninsula
Ethnicity	Nerigo people
Native speakers	(500 cited 1991) [1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Berau Gulf Yabin Yahadian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ner
Glottolog	yaha1248
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Coordinates: 1°56′S132°06′E / 1.94°S 132.10°E / -1.94; 132.10

Yahadian is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of Southwest Papua. It is spoken in Yahadian village, Kais District, South Sorong Regency. ^[1]

Yahadian is closest to Konda, with which it is 60% similar lexically.

Pronouns

De Vries (2004:147) reports the following pronouns for Yahadian.

	singular	plural
1st person	né(nigi)	ná(gigi)
2nd person	é(rigi)	ádigi/adʒigi
3rd person	mí(gigi)	míginaigi

External links

• Paradisec has an open access collection from Bert Voorhoeve that includes Yahadian language materials

References

1. Yahadian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

• de Vries, Lourens. 2004. A Short Grammar of Inanwatan: An endangered language of the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia. (Pacific Linguistics 560). Canberra: Australian National University.