| Yali | |
|---|---|
| Yalimo | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Highland Papua |
| Ethnicity | Yali |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1988–1999)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:yli – Anggurk Yalinlk – Ninia Yaliyac – Pass Valley Yali |
| Glottolog | yali1257 |
Yali (Yaly, Jalè, Jaly) is aPapuan language of Indonesian New Guinea. TheYali people live east of theBaliem Valley, in the Western Highlands.
Dialectical differentiation is great enough thatEthnologue assigns separate codes to three varieties:
However, almost nothing is known of this language. Not even the pronouns were attested for Ross (2005) to base a classification on.
Siegfried Zoellner, a German missionary, has between 1960 and 1973 translated the bible into the Yali language.
The phonology of the Yali language:[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Plosive | plain | b | d | kɡ | ||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | ||||
| implosive | ɗ | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
A /ɡ/ sound at the end of words is pronounced/ʁ/.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
The following is a list of basic words and phrases in the Yali language:
These are the personal pronouns of the Yali language:
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | an | nir |
| 2nd person | har | hir |
| 3rd person | ar | ir |
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