Yuri

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Yuri is a Papuan language belonging to the Karkar-Yuri language family of New Guinea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language
language
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
documentationStatus limited grammatical description
limited lexical documentation
endangermentCause shift to English
shift to Tok Pisin
hasFeature SOV word order (subject–object–verb)
agglutinative morphology
case marking on nouns
complex pronominal system
distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns
moderately small phoneme inventory
phonemic tone absent
postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
hasResourceType short grammatical sketches
wordlists
isoStatus may lack a distinct ISO 639-3 code or be grouped under a related variety
isPartOf Papuan languages of New Guinea NERFINISHED
languageContactWith English NERFINISHED
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
languageFamily Karkar-Yuri NERFINISHED
languageFamilyBranch Karkar-Yuri NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
vulnerable language
linguisticArea Sepik–Ramu region of New Guinea NERFINISHED
macroArea Papunesia
neighboringLanguage Arafundi languages
Karkar NERFINISHED
Upper Yuat languages NERFINISHED
region New Guinea NERFINISHED
subclassOf Karkar-Yuri language NERFINISHED
typologicalClass Papuan (non-Austronesian) language
usedBy Yuri ethnic group NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in local communities
oral tradition
traditional stories and songs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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