Yoba language

Yoba
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Central Province
Extinct (2 non-primary speakers reported 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yob
Glottolog yoba1237[2]

Yoba is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.

See also

References

  1. Yoba at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yoba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, September 29, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.