Yali language

Yali
Yalimo
Spoken in	Highlands of Irian Jaya
Ethnicity	Yali
Native speakers	30,000 (1985–1999)
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

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

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.