| Yimas | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
| Native speakers | 300 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Ramu – Lower Sepik
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yee |
The Yimas language is spoken by the Yimas people of Papua New Guinea. It is a polysynthetic language with (somewhat) free word order. It is an ergative-absolutive language morphologically but not syntactically, although it has several other case-like relations encoded on its verbs. It has over 9 classes (genders) of nouns, and a unique number system.
It is an endangered language, being widely replaced by Tok Pisin, and to a lesser extent, English, and it is unclear if any youth are native Yimas speakers.