Yuri language (New Guinea)

Karkar-Yuri
Spoken in Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province, Amanab District, along the Papua, Indonesia border.
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Native speakers 1,142 (1994 SIL).  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yuj
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)
A dialect of the Golin language of Papua New Guinea is also known as Yuri

The Yuri language, also known as Karkar, is a language isolate in the Papuan languages classifications of both Wurm and Ross. There are about a thousand speakers in Papua New Guinea along the Indonesian border.

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