Yoba is an extinct
Austronesian language of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. It was restructured through contact with neighboring
Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
, and in turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.
External links
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Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...
has the Tom Dutton collection
TD1 that includes Yoba language materials.
See also
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Magori language, a similar situation
References
Central Papuan Tip languages
Languages of Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
Extinct languages of Oceania
Languages extinct in the 1980s
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