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Yoba
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionCentral Province
Extinct(2 non-primary speakers reported 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3yob
Glottologyoba1237

Yoba is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and in turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.

External links

  • Paradisec has the Tom Dutton collection (TD1) that includes Yoba language materials.

See also

References

  1. ^ Yoba at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon