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| Yambes | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 1,100 (2003)[1] |
Torricelli
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ymb |
| Glottolog | yamb1254 |
| ELP | Yambes |
Yambes is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea spoken mostly by older adults. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Malcolm Ross (2005). Dryer (2024),[2] as cited in Drinfield (2024),[3] classifies it as a Kombioic language.
It is spoken in Yambes village (3°32′44″S 142°44′48″E / 3.545596°S 142.746582°E) of Dreikikier Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Yambes at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Dryer, Matthew S. 2024. Towards a genealogical classification of Torricelli languages. Unpublished manuscript.
- ↑ Drinfeld, Andrey (2024). A Grammar of Aro, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea (Ph.D. dissertation). University at Buffalo.
- ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.