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
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
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: 1.94°S 132.10°E / -1.94; 132.10

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.