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Yali language

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Ethnicity
  
Yali

Glottolog
  
yali1257

Region
  
Highlands of Irian Jaya

Native speakers
  
(30,000 cited 1988–1999)

Language family
  
Trans–New Guinea West Trans–New Guinea Irian Highlands ? Dani languages Ngalik Yali

ISO 639-3
  
Variously: yli – Anggurk Yali nlk – Ninia Yali yac – Pass Valley Yali

Yali (Yaly, Jalè, Jaly) is a Papuan language of Indonesian New Guinea. The Yali people live east of the Baliem Valley, in the Western Highlands.

Dialectical differentiation is great enough that Ethnologue assigns separate codes to three varieties:

  • Pass Valley, also known as Abendago, North Ngalik, and Western Yali; subdialects are Pass Valley, Landikma, Apahapsili.
  • Ninia, also known as North Ngalik and Southern Yali (Yali Selatan).
  • Angguruk, also known as Northern Yali.

    • However, almost nothing is known of this language. Not even the pronouns were attested for Ross (2005) to base a classification on.

    References

    Yali language Wikipedia
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