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 GuineaWest Trans–New GuineaIrian Highlands ?Dani languagesNgalikYali ISO 639-3 Variously:yli – Anggurk Yalinlk – Ninia Yaliyac – 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.

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