Yei (Yey, Jei, Je, Yei-Nan) is a
Papuan language of
New Guinea. The Upper and Lower Yey dialects are only
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...
with difficulty.
Distribution
According to
Evans (2018), Yei is spoken in the villages of Po, Torai, Bupul, Tanas, and Kwel in , in eastern
Merauke Regency, Indonesia.
References
Yam languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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