Yaul | |
Nativename: | Ulwa |
States: | Papua New Guinea |
Region: | East Sepik Province |
Date: | 2018 |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | Papuan |
Fam3: | Mongol–Langam |
Iso3: | yla |
Glotto: | yaul1241 |
Glottorefname: | Ulwa (Papua New Guinea) |
Yaul, also known as Ulwa, is a severely endangered Keram language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken fluently by fewer than 700 people and semi-fluently by around 1,250 people in four villages of the Angoram District of the East Sepik Province: Manu, Maruat, Dimiri, and Yaul.
According to Barlow (2018), speakers in Maruat, Dimiri, and Yaul villages speak similar versions of Ulwa, while those in Manu speak a considerably different version. Thus, he postulates that there are two different dialects of Ulwa.