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Yambes language

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Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea
Yambes
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers1,100 (2003)
Language familyTorricelli
  • (unclassified)
    • Yambes
Language codes
ISO 639-3ymb
Glottologyamb1254
ELPYambes

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 Ross (2005).

It is spoken in Yambes village (3°32′44″S 142°44′48″E / 3.545596°S 142.746582°E / -3.545596; 142.746582 (Yambes 1)) of Dreikikier Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.

References

  1. ^ Yambes at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
Torricelli languages
Arapesh
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One (West Wapei)
Marienberg
Wapei
Palei
Urim
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