Yoke language

Yoke
Yoke
Pauwi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Yoke village, Mamberamo Hilir District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua
Native speakers	(200 cited 1998)
Language family	Lower Mamberamo Yoke;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yki
Glottolog	yoke1239
ELP	Yoke
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Yoke is a poorly documented language spoken by about 200 people in the north of Papua, Indonesia. The name is also spelled Yoki, Yauke, and it is also known as Bitovondo. It was spoken in a single village in the interior until the government relocated a third of the population to a new village, Mantarbori, on the coast. In the late 19th century, a word list of "Pauwi" was collected by Robidé van der Aa at Lake Rombebai, where the Yoke say they migrated from; this is transparently Yoke, apart from some words which do not appear in the modern language but are found in related Warembori.^[2]

^ Yoke at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ A word list of "Pauwi" collected by Stroeve and Moszkowski was not Yoke, though it's not clear what it was.[1]

[e18-1] Yoke at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] A word list of "Pauwi" collected by Stroeve and Moszkowski was not Yoke, though it's not clear what it was.[1]

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