Yahadian language
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
- ^ a b 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.