Yalë
[aka Yale, Yade, Yadë]Classification: Isolate
·endangered
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
West Sepik [Sandaun] Province: 8 villages in the lowland rainforest.
Language metadata
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Yale, Yade, Yadë, Yare, Yarë, Nagatiman, Nagatman |
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Isolate, Pacific |
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ISO 639-3 |
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nce |
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Language information by source
Compare Sources (5)
Information from: “Yade Grammar Essentials” . Campbell, Carl and Jody Campbell (1987)
Information from: “Yade Grammar Essentials” . Campbell, Carl and Jody Campbell (1987)
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
- DATE OF INFO
- 1991
- SPEAKER ATTITUDE
- "Positive attitudes."
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Tok Pisin [tpi]
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"Most younger men also use Tok Pisin [tpi]."
- Scripts (Writing system)
- Latin
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Sandaun Province, Amanab district, west of Namia. 6 villages. Kwomtari [kwo] language area is north; Abau [aau] is south; Busa [bhf] is southwest; Biaka [bio] is west; Anggor [agg] and Amanab [amn] are northwest."
Information from: “Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification” . Laycock, Donald C. (1973) , Wurm, Stephen A. · Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Linguistics
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
8 villages: Dila, Hila, Karboni, Marakwini, Nagatman, Tera, Tila, and Weitera.
Information from: “Language isolates in the New Guinea region” . Harald Hammarström (2017) , Lyle Campbell, Thomas Dougherty, and Alexander D. Smith · London: Routledge
- PLACES
- Papua New Guinea
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Sandaun Province
- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
"In six villages south of the Kwomtari in the Upper Sepik area of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea."
Information from: “Glottolog 2.3” . Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian (2014)