Yahadian language
Yabin language spoken in Indonesia
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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.[2] Overall, Yahadian is poorly documented, with only enough data for a sketch of the language's structure.[3]: 628 It is considered "endangered" by Ethnologue.[2]
| 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 | 1,200[1] (2002) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ner |
| Glottolog | yaha1248 |
  Yahadian  Yahadian  Yahadian | |
| Coordinates: 1.94°S 132.10°E | |
Geographic distribution
Yahadian is a member of the Trans–New Guinea languages, spoken on the northwestern corner of the island of New Guinea. Three villages speak Yahadian: Mugim, Yahadian, and (parts of) Kais, with an estimated 1,200 speakers in 2002.[1] They are all located on the south side of the Bird's Head peninsula in Indonesia.[3]: 571
Yahadian is most closely related to Konda; the two languages appear to form a dialect continuum. Yahadian speakers in the village of Mugim reported that they could "easily" understand Konda speakers.[1] They are also the only two South Bird's Head languages that do not mark gender on nouns.[3]: 604
It does not appear to have a close relationship with its eastern neighbor, the Inanwatan language, with limited lexical overlap (8%) and far different phonology and morphology.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
Yahadian has 21 consonants, according to de Vries's analysis.[1]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | tʲ | dʲ[a] | c | ɟ | k | ɡ | ||||
| Fricative | ɸ | β | x | ɣ | h | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Tap/ Trill |
ɾ r[b] | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||||
Vowels
Yahadian has eight vowels:[4]: 144
Phonotactics
The language generally uses CV or V syllables, with a few exceptions. CC consonant clusters require one of the consonants to be [r] or [t]. Nasals and liquids are the only observed word-final consonants.[1]
Morphology
Yahadian has fairly simple morphology compared to its neighbors. It does not index the verb's arguments via affixes, unlike other South Bird's Head languages.[3]: 591
