Yei (Yey, Jei, Je, Yei-Nan) 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 geogra ...
of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
. The Upper and Lower Yey dialects are only
mutually intelligible 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
Merauke Regency is a regency in the far south of the Indonesian province of South Papua. It covers an area of 46,791.63 km2, and had a population of 195,716 at the 2010 Census and 230,932 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2 ...
, Indonesia.
References
Yam languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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