Yali (Yaly, Jalè, Jaly) is a
Papuan language
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 ge ...
of Indonesian New Guinea. The
Yali people
Yali are a major tribal group in Papua, Indonesia, and live to the east of the Baliem Valley in the Papuan highlands. The Dani word for "lands of the east" is "yali", from where the Yali took it, without it being a self-identification for their ...
live east of the
Baliem Valley
The Baliem Valley ( id, Lembah Baliem; also spelled Balim and sometimes known as the Grand Valley) is a valley of the Central Highlands in Western New Guinea. Specifically in Highland Papua, Indonesia, which is inhabited mainly by the Dani peo ...
, 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.
Phonology
The phonology of the Yali language:
A /ɡ/ sound at the end of words is pronounced .
Basic words and phrases
The following is a list of basic words and phrases in the Yali language:
* - how are you
* - thank you
* - you're welcome
* - friend
* - good
* - that
* - this
* - and
* - speak/talk
* - language
* - man
* - my news/state
* - your (sg.) news/state
* - for myself
* - for yourself
* - for him/herself
* - for ourselves
* - for yourselves/themselves
* - *end of statement particle
* - I am pleased
* - I like that
* - I have
* - S/he is my friend
* - They are my friends
* - S/he is a good friend
* - My friends are from America
* - I speak Yali
Pronouns
Personal pronouns of the Yali language
References
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References
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Dani languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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