Berik language

Berik
Sewan
Native toIndonesia
RegionTor Atas district, Sarmi Regency
Native speakers
(1,200 cited 1994)
Foja Range (Tor–Kwerba)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkl
Glottologberi1254

Berik (Sewan) is a Papuan language spoken in Indonesia. Speakers are located in four village groups on the Tor River, in Sarmi Regency, Papua Province.

US linguist John McWhorter cited Berik as an example of a language which puts concepts "together in ways more fascinatingly different from English than most of us are aware". Illustrating this, in the phrase Kitobana (meaning "[he] gives three large objects to a male in the sunlight"), affixes indicating time of day, object number, object size, and gender of recipient are added to the verb.