Yoke is a poorly documented language spoken by about 200 people in the north of Papua, Indonesia.
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.
The two languages are grammatically very similar, with shared morphological irregularities, demonstrating a genealogical relationship.
Unusually for a Papuan language, but like Warembori, Yoke has prepositions and a subject–verb–object (SVO) constituent order.
The verbal affixes are: The independent pronouns are the first subject marker listed in the table prefixed to -βu.