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- Berik_language abstract "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. 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". 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.Sample Angtaneʻ bosna Usafe je gatas tarnap ge nuin. Tesa ga belim taban, ga jes talebowel. "There was once a person named Usafe who lived near the sago acreages. Whenever he finished cutting down a sago tree, he pounded it" ↑ ↑ ↑ 3.0 3.1 ↑".
- Berik_language iso6393Code "bkl".
- Berik_language languageFamily Tor%E2%80%93Kwerba_languages.
- Berik_language spokenIn Indonesia.
- Berik_language spokenIn Sarmi_Regency.
- Berik_language wikiPageExternalLink language-death-english-tech-cx_jm_language_sp08_0221death.html.
- Berik_language wikiPageExternalLink 31853.pdf.
- Berik_language wikiPageID "31726411".
- Berik_language wikiPageRevisionID "577272890".
- Berik_language date "1994".
- Berik_language fam Orya–Tor_languages.
- Berik_language fam Tor%E2%80%93Kwerba_languages.
- Berik_language fam Tor–Kwerba_languages.
- Berik_language familycolor "Papuan".
- Berik_language hasPhotoCollection Berik_language.
- Berik_language iso "bkl".
- Berik_language name "Berik".
- Berik_language ref "e17".
- Berik_language region "Tor Atas district, Sarmi Regency".
- Berik_language script Latin_script.
- Berik_language speakers "1200".
- Berik_language states Indonesia.
- Berik_language subject Category:Tor–Kwerba_languages.
- Berik_language type Abstraction100002137.
- Berik_language type Communication100033020.
- Berik_language type Language106282651.
- Berik_language type Tor%E2%80%93KwerbaLanguages.
- Berik_language type Language.
- Berik_language type Language.
- Berik_language type InformationEntity.
- Berik_language comment "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. 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".".
- Berik_language label "Berik language".
- Berik_language sameAs m.02hwgr4.
- Berik_language sameAs Q378743.
- Berik_language sameAs Q378743.
- Berik_language sameAs Berik_language.
- Berik_language wasDerivedFrom Berik_language?oldid=577272890.
- Berik_language isPrimaryTopicOf Berik_language.
- Berik_language name "Berik".