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Yerakai language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Native speakers
  
380 (2000 census)

Glottolog
  
yera1243

Region
  
East Sepik Province

ISO 639-3
  
yra

Language family
  
Sepik? Middle Sepik? Yerakai

Yerakai (Yerekai) is a Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea. It's highly divergent from other Sepik languages, being only 6% cognate with the Middle Sepik languages it is sometimes classified with. Glottolog leaves it unclassified / as an isolate.

References

Yerakai language Wikipedia