{{Short description|Ramu language of Papua New Guinea}} {{Infobox language |name=Akrukay |nativename=''Chini'' |states=Papua New Guinea |region=Madang Province |coordinates={{coord|-4.885733|144.830998|type:city_region:PG_source:enwiki|name=Akurukai|display=inline,title}} |speakers=75 |date=2013 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Papuan |fam1 = Ramu |fam2 = Ramu proper |fam3 = Tamolan–Ataitan |fam4 = Tamolan |iso3=afi |glotto=akru1241 |glottorefname=Chini }} {{GeoGroup}}
'''Akrukay''' (or '''Chini''') is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Brooks |first=Joseph |title=Realis and irrealis: Chini verb morphology, clause chaining, and discourse |date=2018 |publisher=UC Santa Barbara |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36s8s9t4 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Brooks |first=Joseph |title=Reflexive and middle constructions in Chini |date=2023-04-28 |url=https://www.academia.edu/122348485/Reflexive_and_middle_constructions_in_Chini |access-date=2026-04-07 |publisher=Zenodo |language=en |doi=10.5281/zenodo.7874958 |isbn=978-3-96110-411-6}}</ref> It is spoken in the two villages of Akrurai ({{coord|-4.885733|144.830998|type:city_region:PG|name=Akurukai}}) and Andamang ({{coord|-4.855887|144.773677|type:city_region:PG|name=Andamang}}) in Akrurai ward, Arabaka Rural LLG, Madang Province.<ref name="Ethnologue22-PNG">{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG/languages |title=Papua New Guinea languages |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=22nd |editor1-last=Eberhard |editor1-first=David M. |editor2-last=Simons |editor2-first=Gary F. |editor3-last=Fennig |editor3-first=Charles D. |date=2019 |location=Dallas |publisher=SIL International}}</ref><ref name="UN-PNG">{{cite web |url=https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |title=Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup |author=United Nations in Papua New Guinea |work=Humanitarian Data Exchange |version=1.31.9 |date=2018}}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0346 ELAR archive of Documentation and analysis of Andamang Chini] * [https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_afi_swadesh-1 Akrukay word list, part of the Rosetta Project] {{Languages of Papua New Guinea}} {{Ramu–Lower Sepik languages}}
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Category:Tamolan languages Category:Languages of Madang Province
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