Sikaritai language

Sikaritai
Tori Aikwakai
Native to Indonesia
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
800 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tty
Glottolog sika1263[2]

Sikaritai (Sikwari) is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is named after Sikari village. It's gone by various names: Aikwakai, Araikurioko, Ati, Tori, Tori Aikwakai.

Sikaritai, Obokuitai, and Eritai constitute a dialect cluster.

References

  1. Sikaritai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sikaritai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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