Yuri language
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- The Yuri language of Papua New Guinea is not to be confused with the extinct Yuri language of Colombia and Brazil, see Yuri language (Amazon)Yuri language (Amazon)Yurí is, or was, a language previously spoken near a stretch of the Caquetá River in the Brazilian Amazon, extending slightly into Colombia. A small amount of data was collected on two occasions in the 19th century, in 1853 and 1867...
- A dialect of the Golin languageGolin languageGolin is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.-Vowels:Diphthongs that occur are . The consonants can also be syllabic.-Consonant:...
of Papua New Guinea is also known as Yuri
The Yuri language, also known as Karkar, is a language isolate
Language isolate
A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. They are in effect language families consisting of a single...
in the Papuan languages
Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892.-The...
classifications of both Wurm and Ross. There are about a thousand speakers in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
along the Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n border.