Ari language (New Guinea)

The Ari language is a Papuan language of the Trans–New Guinea family. As of the 2000 census there were only 50 Ari speakers, living in the two villages of Ari and Serea in Gogodala Rural LLG.[3][4][5]

Ari
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Ari and Serea villages, Aramia River area, Western Province.
Native speakers	50 (2000)[1]
Language family	Papuan Gulf ? Gogodala–Suki Gogodala Ari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aac
Glottolog	arii1243
ELP	Ari[2]
Coordinates: 7°57′S 142°24′E

The language that most resembles Ari is the Gogodala language.

References

1. Ari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Endangered Languages Project data for Ari.
3. 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.
4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
5. Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.