Yaqay language

Yaqay
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 unknown (10,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jaq
Glottolog yaqa1246[2]

Yaqay (Yaqai, Jakai, Jaqai) is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by over ten thousand people. It's also called Mapi or Sohur; dialects are Oba-Miwamon, Nambiomon-Mabur, Bapai.

References

  1. ↑ Yaqay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yaqay". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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