Yaul language
| Yaul | |
|---|---|
| Ulwa | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 700 (2018)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yla |
| Glottolog | yaul1241 |
Yaul, also known as Ulwa, is a severely endangered Keram language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken fluently by fewer than 700 people and semi-fluently by around 1,250 people in four villages of the Angoram District of the East Sepik Province: Manu, Maruat, Dimiri, and Yaul. Currently, no children are being taught Ulwa, which has led to the rapid decline of intergenerational transmission for this language.[2]
According to Barlow (2018), speakers in Maruat, Dimiri, and Yaul villages speak similar versions of Ulwa, while those in Manu speak a considerably different version. Thus, he postulates that there are two different dialects of Ulwa.[2]
References
- ^ Yaul at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 2.0 2.1 Barlow (2018)
Sources
- Barlow, Russell (2018). A Grammar of Ulwa (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. hdl:10125/62506.
- Barlow R (2023). A grammar of Ulwa (Papua New Guinea) (pdf). Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8094859. ISBN 9783961104154.
- Barlow, Russell. 2023. A grammar of Ulwa (Papua New Guinea). (Comprehensive Grammar Library). Berlin: Language Science Press.
External links
- Language materials from the Ulwa [yla] language of East Sepik recorded by Russell Barlow and archived with Kaipuleohone
- Paradisec has two collections with Yaul materials, including Don Laycock's DL2 collection, and JM1