Biksi-Yetfa language

Biksi-Yetfa
Biksi-Yetfa
Biksi
Native to	Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Region	Jetfa District in Pegunungan Bintang Regency
Ethnicity	Yetfa, Biksi
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1996)
Language family	Pauwasi South Pauwasi Yetfa – South Pauwasi Biksi-Yetfa; ; ;
Dialects	Yetfa; Biksi;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yet
Glottolog	yetf1238
ELP	Yetfa-Biksi

Yetfa and Biksi (Biaksi; Inisine^[2]) are dialects of a language spoken in Jetfa District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia, and across the border in Papua New Guinea. It is a trade language spoken in Western New Guinea up to the PNG border.

According to Hammarström (2008), it is being passed on to children and is not in immediate danger.

^ Biksi-Yetfa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Cite error: The named reference Foley-NWNG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).