| Duriankari | |
|---|---|
| Duriankere, Efpan | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Salawati,Sorong Regency,Southwest Papua |
| Ethnicity | Duriankari people |
| Extinct | By the 1990s?[1] |
?South Bird's Head
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dbn |
| Glottolog | duri1243 |
| ELP | Duriankere |
  Duriankari | |
| Coordinates:1°22′S130°56′E / 1.36°S 130.94°E /-1.36; 130.94 | |
Duriankari (Duriankere orEfpan) is a possibly extinctPapuan language (or dialect) of Indonesian Papua. It is associated with the village ofDuriankari at the southern tip of the island ofSalawati, which is part of theRaja Ampat Archipelago and is adjacent to theBird's Head Peninsula of the West Papuan mainland.
It was observed in the 1950s that its speakers wereshifting to theMoi language.[2] Duriankari was reported in the 1980s to have had about 100 speakers,[3] but by the 1990s it was said to be extinct.[1] It was listed as a separate language byVoorhoeve (1975a, p. 440), butBerry & Berry (1987, p. 92) conclude that not enough is known about it to determine whether it is a separate language or a dialect ofInanwatan. The Inanwatan language is spoken in a few villages over 150 kilometres to the east (as well as by a smaller community across the Sele Strait from Duriankari in the village ofSeget). The Inanwatan people there regard theDuriankari people as descendants of Inanwatans who were carried away so far west by a mythical flood.[4]
A list of words in the language collected byJ.C. Anceaux is available inVoorhoeve (1975b, p. 104) andSmits & Voorhoeve (1998).