Yali language

Yali
Yalimo
Region Highlands of Irian Jaya
Ethnicity Yali
Native speakers
 (30,000 cited 1988–1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
yli – Anggurk Yali
nlk – Ninia Yali
yac – Pass Valley Yali
Glottolog yali1257[2]

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:

  • 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.

Phonology

The phonology of the Yali language[3]:

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiced b d k/ɡ
prenasal mb nd ŋɡ
aspirated pʰ tʰ
Fricative f s h
Nasal m n
Lateral l
Implosive ɗ
Approximant w j

A /ɡ/ sound at the end of words is pronounced /ʁ/.

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Low a

References

  1. ↑ Anggurk Yali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ninia Yali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Pass Valley Yali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yalic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Fahner, Christiaan (1979). The Morphology of Yali and Dani: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.


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