Yei language
Not to be confused with Yei language (Bantu).
| Yey | |
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| Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,400 (2001)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
jei |
| Glottolog |
yeii1239[2] |
Yey (Yei, Jei, Je, Yei-Nan) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The Upper and Lower Yey dialects are only mutually intelligible with difficulty.
References
- ↑ Yey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yei". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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