The speakers who make up the younger demographics tend to either speak a more simplified version of the language or favor the use of Tok Pisin, an English creole, which is the universal language used with neighboring villages.
Most village members decided to relocate nearer to the river, while a few stayed behind and continued habitation in the forest.
There is a history of bride exchange between villages and clans, with patrilocal residence following marriage.
Yeri is not being passed down to younger generations and the existing speakers are declining at a rapid rate.
While they are shown in the table, they are not considered consonant phonemes because of their distribution in vocalic position.
[2] Yeri exhibits the basic word order of SVO (Subject, Verb, Object).
[2] Overt number marking usually occurs through suffixation, which means that a morpheme is attached to the end of a root.
Polar questions are marked by either a clause final morpheme or rising intonation.
The example sentences use Leipzig Glossing Rules.te-Ø sɨsekia kɨ w-y-aria yem 3-SG.F trick already 3SG.F-2-do.R 2PL
The applicative itself, 'us' in this example, does use the prefixes that index objects.ye ta n-w-a
'[2]Yeri uses juxtaposition with no overt morpheme corresponding to English 'and' to coordinate argument clauses.