ISO 639-3 aac | Native speakers 50 (2000) Glottolog arii1243 | |
Region Ari and Serea villages, Aramia River area, Western Province. Language family Trans–New GuineaGogodala–SukiGogodalaAri | ||
The Ari language is a Papuan language of the Trans–New Guinea family. As of the 2000 census there were only 50 Ari speakers, living in two villages. As of 2010 the language is considered a dead language. The validity of this census is dubious as it was conducted in a country where the government is decentralized. Also the writer of this has first-hand experience in 2014 of speaking with Ari speakers.
The closest language to Ari is the Gogodala language.
References
Ari language (New Guinea) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA