Yaqay language
| Yaqay | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1987)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
jaq |
| Glottolog |
yaqa1246[2] |
Yaqay (Yaqai, Jakai, Jaqai) is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by over ten thousand people. It is also called Mapi or Sohur; dialects are Oba-Miwamon, Nambiomon-Mabur, Bapai.
References
- ↑ Yaqay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yaqay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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