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Yalë language

Language spoken in Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yalë language, also known as Yadë, Nagatman, or Nagatiman, is spoken in northwestern Papua New Guinea. It may be related to the Kwomtari languages, but Palmer (2018) classifies it as a language isolate.[2]

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Yalë
Nagatman
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province
Native speakers
(600 cited 1991)[1]
Senu River or language isolate
  • Guriaso–Yale
    • Yalë
Language codes
ISO 639-3nce
Glottologyale1246
ELPYalë
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There were 600 speakers in 1991 and 30 monolinguals at an unrecorded date.[1] Yalë is spoken in Nagatiman (3.744917°S 141.471593°E / -3.744917; 141.471593 (Nagatiman)) and several other villages of Green River Rural LLG in Sandaun Province.[3][4] Foley (2018) reports a total of six villages.[5]

Yalë is in extensive trade and contact with Busa, a likely language isolate spoken just to the south. Yalë has complex verbal inflection and SOV word order.[5]

Phonology

Aannested, Aidan (2020)[6] gives the following phonology for Yadë (Yalë):

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Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩
Plosive Voiceless p ⟨p⟩ t ⟨t⟩ k ⟨k⟩
Voiced b ~ β ⟨b⟩ d ~ ɺ ⟨d/l⟩ ɡ ~ ɣ ⟨g⟩
Fricative ɸ ⟨f⟩ s ⟨s⟩ h ⟨h⟩
Affricate d͡ʑ ~ ʑ ⟨j⟩
Approximant w ⟨w⟩ j ⟨y⟩
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  • "dd" is pronounced as a trilled /r(ː)/
  • See the source for more information regarding allophones- the ones listed are just the common occurrences.
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Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ⟨i⟩ u ⟨u⟩
Close-Mid e ⟨e⟩ o ⟨o⟩
Open-Mid ɛ ⟨ë/ɛ⟩
Open a ⟨a⟩
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  • Each vowel has a wide range of possible realizations, most notably /u/, which has:
    • /y/, /ʉ/, /ʊ/, and /u̟/

Pronouns

Pronouns are:[5]

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sgpl
1 bose ~ sebo
2 juso ~ sobo
3 bu
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Grammar

Verbal conjugation affixes are:[5]

  • -d: generic marker
  • -t: transitive marker
  • -b: intransitive marker

Most nouns are not pluralized, and only nouns with human or animate reference or with high local salience may be pluralized using the suffix -rɛ ~ -re:[5]

  • nɛba-re /child-PL/ ‘children’
  • ama-re /dog-PL/ ‘dogs’
  • dife-rɛ /village-PL/ ‘villages’

Other plural nouns are irregular:[5]

  • aya-nino /father-PL/ ‘fathers’
  • mise ‘woman’, one ‘women’

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Conrad and Dye (1975),[7] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[8]

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glossYalë
headʌsu
hairʌsʌǏahuᵽa
earąhuǏuʔ
eyena:ba
noseyɛlu
tongueaǏižiʔ
lousemibaʔ
dogkaliʔ
piggǏɛǏiʔ
birdpʋlɛʔ
eggkah
bloodwi:nuʔ
boneɛlɛ:b̶u
skinžib̶uʔ
breastma:ba
treeti:
womanmɩsɛʔ
watertuʔ
fireahuʐiʔ
stoneanɩziʔ
road, pathařʌgɛʔ
eathiɛǏɛ
onežuwaʔ
twoteǏɛʔ
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Further reading

  • Campbell, Carl and Jody Campbell. 1987. Yadë Grammar Essentials. Unpublished manuscript. Ukarumpa, PNG: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  • Campbell, Carl and Jody Campbell. 1990. Yadë (Nagatman) – English Dictionary. Unpublished manuscript. Ukarumpa, PNG: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  • Campbell, Carl and Jody Campbell. 1997. Yalë (Nagatman, Yadë) Phonology Essentials. Unpublished manuscript. Ukarumpa, PNG: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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