Yei language

Yei (Yey, Jei, Je, Yei-Nan) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The Upper and Lower Yey dialects are only mutually intelligible with difficulty.

Yei
Yey
RegionNew Guinea
Native speakers
2,400 (2001)[1]
Trans-Fly – Bulaka River?
Dialects
  • Upper
  • Lower
Language codes
ISO 639-3jei
Glottologyeii1239[2]

References

  1. Yei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yei". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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