Yali language
| Yali | |
|---|---|
| Yalimo | |
| Region | Highlands of Irian Jaya |
| Ethnicity | Yali |
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Native speakers
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(30,000 cited 1988–1999) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: yli – Anggurk Yali nlk – Ninia Yali yac – Pass Valley Yali |
| Glottolog | yali1257 |
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:
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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