Yali (Yaly, Jalè, Jaly) is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
of Indonesian New Guinea. The
Yali people live east of the
Baliem Valley
The Baliem Valley (; also spelled Balim and sometimes known as the Grand Valley) is a valley of the Central Highlands in Western New Guinea, specifically in the province of Highland Papua, Indonesia. The main town in the valley is Wamena, which ...
, in the Western Highlands.
Dialectical differentiation is great enough that ''Ethnologue'' assigns separate codes to three varieties:
*Pass Valley, also known as Abenaho, 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
These are the personal pronouns of the Yali language:
References
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External links
Yali (Apahapsili) DoReCo corpuscompiled by Sonja Riesberg. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
Dani languages
Languages of Western New Guinea
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