Yali language
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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.
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Yalimo | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Highland Papua |
Ethnicity | Yali |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1988–1999)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | Variously:yli – Anggurk Yalinlk – Ninia Yaliyac – Pass Valley Yali |
Glottolog | yali1257 |
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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.
Siegfried Zoellner, a German missionary, has between 1960 and 1973 translated the bible into the Yali language.