Yali language

Yali
Yalimo
Region	Highlands of Irian Jaya
Ethnicity	Yali
Native speakers	unknown (30,000 cited 1988–1999)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea West Trans–New Guinea Irian Highlands ? Dani languages Ngalik Yali
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: yli – Anggurk Yali nlk – Ninia Yali yac – Pass Valley Yali
Glottolog	yali1257[2]

Yali (Yaly, Jalè, Jaly) is a Papuan language of Indonesian New Guinea. The Yali people live east of the Baliem Valley, 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.

References

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

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.