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Yoba language

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
  
yob

Region
  
Central Province

Glottolog
  
yoba1237

Extinct
  
(2 non-primary speakers reported 1981)

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Central Oumic Magoric Yoba

Yoba is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.

References

Yoba language Wikipedia


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