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Bulaka River languages information


Bulaka River
Yelmek–Maklew
Jabga
EthnicityJab (Yab)
Geographic
distribution
Tubang and Ilwayab subdistricts, Bulaka River watershed, Merauke Regency, South Papua
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
  • Yelmek
  • Maklew
Glottologbula1259
Map: The Bulaka River languages of New Guinea
  The Bulaka River languages
  Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Bulaka River languages are a pair of closely related Papuan languages, Yelmek and Maklew, on the Bulaka River in Indonesian South Papua. They are ethnically Yab (Jab); their speech is Yabga (Jabga).

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