Yonggom is a member of the Lowland Ok branch of the Trans-New-Guinea language family. It has about 6,000 speakers in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In particular, it is spoken in a number of villages in South Papua and West Papua Provinces in Indonesia.
Yonggom is also known as Yongkom or Yongom. It is part of a dialect continuum of 9 mutually intelligible languages, including Muyu, North Muyu, South Muyu and Ningrum.
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Aron mamaa nub wene Awi ye tarak okat kubunuuna, nubed wene nongiip ayiip benwenuwa, okad nitke karekoruub buruwandoona nongiib karuwiib mondaruwen. Mondarokoruub, angkon iyakman mene Mangkat yiri kowokoruub, mene motambed kambong ari munuwen.
One day we went down to get Awi's truck out of the mud, and took ropes and poles, then first dug up the ground (around the wheels) and got the truck started and pushed. After it was unstuck we came back, came by Mangat Creek, got in the canoe and came home.
Source: Yongkom Organised Phonology Data
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Information about Yonggom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonggom_language
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/yon
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yong1280
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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