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- Berik_language abstract "Berik is a Papuan language spoken in eastern Papua. Speakers are located in four village groups on the Tor river towards the northern coast of Indonesian-controlled Irian Jaya.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.".