Yessan-Mayo (also known as Yesan, Mayo, and natively known as Yamano
) is a
Papuan language spoken by 2000 people in
Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Maio () and Yessan () villages of Yessan ward,
Ambunti Rural LLG,
East Sepik Province.
Phonology
The phonology of Yessan-Mayo is described in Foley (2018)
as such:
Vowels
Consonants
Pronouns
Foreman (1974)
describes two kinds of pronouns in Yessan-Mayo: non-emphatic and
emphatic pronoun An intensive pronoun (or self-intensifier) adds emphasis to a statement; for example, "I did it ''myself''." While English intensive pronouns (e.g., ''myself'', ''yourself'', ''himself, herself'', ''ourselves'', ''yourselves'', ''themselves'') use t ...
s.
In addition to the non-emphatic pronouns, there is also the
reflexive pronoun ''kwarara'' (self), as well as the
demonstrative pronouns ''op'' (this) and ''otop'' (that).
Non-emphatic
Emphatic
External links
*
Paradisec has a collection of
Don Laycock's
DL2 that includes Yessan-Mayo language materials.
References
Tama languages
Languages of East Sepik Province
Languages of Sandaun Province
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