Zorop language
Yafi, also known as Zorop, is an Eastern Pauwasi language of West New Guinea. It is spoken in Warlef village, Senggi District, Keerom Regency.[3]
| Yafi | |
|---|---|
| Zorop | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Western New Guinea: Warlef village, Senggi District, Keerom Regency |
Native speakers | 230 (2005)[1] |
Pauwasi
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wfg |
| Glottolog | yafi1240[2] |
Basic vocabulary
Below are some basic vocabulary words in Zorop.[4]
Zorop basic vocabulary ‘I’ nam ‘you (sg)’ nem ‘we’ nim ‘belly’ yalək ‘bird’ awe ‘black’ seŋgəri ‘blood’ mob ‘breast’ muam ‘come’ kwalopai ‘eat’ fer- ‘eye’ ji ‘foot’ fuŋi ‘give’ tipi ‘good’ kiap ‘hand’ jae ‘head’ məndai ‘hear’ fau ‘house’ nab ‘louse’ yemar ‘man’ arab ‘mosquito’ yəŋkar ‘name’ jei ‘road’ mai ‘root’ fiŋgu ‘sand’ gərək ‘tooth’ jurai ‘tree’ war ‘water’ jewek ‘who’ waunap ‘one’ aŋgətəwam ‘two’ anəŋgar
gollark: You can't really do that.
gollark: Why? They're annoying. People do wrong things all the time.
gollark: This would only require 80 minutes.
gollark: Just watch at 1.25x speed.
gollark: I know that. I'm saying that it's wrong.
References
- Yafi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yafi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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