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Berik is a Papuan language spoken in eastern Papua. Speakers are located in four village groups on the Tor River towards the northern coast of Indonesian-controlled Irian Jaya.[2]

Berik
Native toIndonesia
RegionTor Atas district, Sarmi Regency
Native speakers
(1,200 cited 1994)[1]
Language family
Foja Range (Tor–Kwerba)
  • Orya–Tor
    • Tor
      • Berik–Bonerif
        • Berik
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkl
Glottologberi1254

US linguist John McWhorter cited Berik as an example of a language which puts concepts "together in ways more fascinatingly different from English than most of us are aware".[3] Illustrating this, in the phrase Kitobana (meaning "[he] gives three large objects to a male in the sunlight"), affixes indicating time of day, object number, object size, and gender of recipient are added to the verb.[3][4][5]


Locations


In Tor Atas District, Berik is spoken in Beu, Bora Bora, Dangken, Doronta, Kondirjan, Safrontani, Sewan, Somanente, Taminambor, Tenwer, Togonfo, and Waf villages.[6]


Phonology



Consonants


Labial Alveolar (Alveolo-)
palatal
Velar
Nasal m [m] n [n] ng [ŋ]
Plosive &
affricate
voiceless p [p] t [t] k [k]
voiced b [b] d [d] j [d͡ʑ] g [ɡ]
Fricative f [f] s [s]
Approximant l [l] y [j] w [w]
Tap r [ɾ]

Vowels


Berik has the common six vowel system (/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/ plus /ə/).[7]

Front Central Back
Close i [i] u [u]
Mid e [e] ə [ə] o [o]
Open a [a]

Sample



Notes


  1. Berik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Matthews, "Berik Literacy Program", p. 109
  3. McWhorter, "No Tears for Dead Tongues"
  4. "Difficult languages--Tongue twisters--In search of the world’s hardest language", Economist, New York,Dec 17th 2009.
  5. John McWhorter,"No Tears For Dead Tongues", Forbes,2/21/2008 @ 6:00PM.
  6. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  7. Westrum, "A Grammatical Sketch of Berik," p. 137
  8. Taken from Jones, "In Pursuit of Discourse Particles", p. 130

References





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