Yei language

Yey
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
 2,400  (2001)[1]
Trans-Fly – Bulaka River?
Dialects
Upper
Lower
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jei
Glottolog yeii1239[2]

Yey (Yei, Jei, Je, Yei-Nan) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The Upper and Lower Yey dialects are only mutually intelligible with difficulty.

References

  1. ↑ Yey at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yei". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.