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Yei language

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Yei
Yey
RegionNew Guinea
Native speakers
2,400 (2001)[1]
Dialects
  • Upper
  • Lower
Language codes
ISO 639-3jei
Glottologyeii1239

Yei (Yey, 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. ^ Yei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)