Akrukay language

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Akrukay
Chini
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
75 (2013)[1]
Ramu
  • Ramu proper
Language codes
ISO 639-3afi
Glottologakru1241
ELPChini
Coordinates: 4°53′09″S 144°49′52″E / 4.885733°S 144.830998°E / -4.885733; 144.830998 (Akurukai)

Akrukay (or Chini) is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.[2][3] It is spoken in the two villages of Akrurai (4°53′09″S 144°49′52″E / 4.885733°S 144.830998°E / -4.885733; 144.830998 (Akurukai)) and Andamang (4°51′21″S 144°46′25″E / 4.855887°S 144.773677°E / -4.855887; 144.773677 (Andamang)) in Akrurai ward, Arabaka Rural LLG, Madang Province.[4][5]

References

  1. Akrukay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Brooks, Joseph (2018). Realis and irrealis: Chini verb morphology, clause chaining, and discourse (Thesis). UC Santa Barbara.
  3. Brooks, Joseph (2023-04-28), Reflexive and middle constructions in Chini, Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7874958, ISBN 978-3-96110-411-6, retrieved 2026-04-07
  4. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.