Iteri

Facts

  • Language: Iteri
  • Alternate names: Alowiemino, Iyo, Laro, Rocky Peak, Yinibu
  • Language code: itr
  • Language family: Arai (Left May) (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 447
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Area seldom entered by outsiders. Ethnonym: Rocky Peak people.

    Laycock (1973) lists two separate languages--Yinibu (Rocky Peak) and Iyo--athough he writes that Iyo may be the same language as Yinibu. According to Årsjö (1999), Rocky Peak is a dialect of Iteri.