https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-09-16T19:16:10+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/bulaka-river/maklew?rev=1719337266&do=diff Maklew Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Maklew is spoken by approximately 200 people (2010) living in Welbuti village on the Mawek river, a tributary of the Bulaka, in the Okaba subdistrict of the Merauke regency of Indonesia's Papua province. According to Lebold, Kriens and de Vries, children are abandoning the use of Maklew in favor of Indonesian. Residents of Welbuti report two other villages, Woboyu and Dodolim, in which the same language is alleged to be spoken in a dialect Dr… text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/bulaka-river/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Bulaka River Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Publication Timothy Usher 2014. “Bulaka River Consonants”. Journal of Language Relationship 12: 31-50. Situation The Bulaka River language family consists of two closely-related languages, Yelmek and Maklew, spoken to the east of Marianne Strait, across from Kolopom (Frederik Hendrik) island, in the Merauke district of Indonesia's Papua province. Drabbe (1950: 549) counted 350 speakers of Yelmek in four villages, Yelwayab on the Wanam River… text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/bulaka-river/yelmek?rev=1719337266&do=diff Yelmek Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation [under construction] The language most commonly known as Yelmek (Jélmèk) in the literature is spoken by 350 people (1950) living in at least four villages, Yelwayab on the Wanam River, Woboyu, Dudaling and Bibikem … (Drabbe 1950: 549, q.v. Boelaars 1950: 19, 25.) Properly speaking, Yelmek is only one of four subgroups of the language, alongside Yab (Jab,) Nggarum and Dib (Drabbe 1950: CITE, Nevermann 1952: CITE.)