| Yali | |
|---|---|
| Yalimo | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Highland Papua |
| Ethnicity | Yali |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1988–1999)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:yli – Anggurk Yalinlk – Ninia Yaliyac – Pass Valley Yali |
| Glottolog | yali1257 |
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.
Siegfried Zoellner, a German missionary, has between 1960 and 1973 translated the bible into the Yali language.
- ^ Anggurk Yali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ninia Yali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Pass Valley Yali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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