Yessan-Mayo language
| Yessan | |
|---|---|
| Yessan-Mayo | |
| Region | East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yss |
| Glottolog | yess1239 |
| ELP | Yessan-Mayo |
Yessan-Mayo (also known as Yessan or Mayo, as well as Yamano[2]) is a Papuan language spoken by 2000 people in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Maio (4°12′50″S 142°40′33″E / 4.21379°S 142.675929°E) and Yessan (4°13′08″S 142°40′00″E / 4.219025°S 142.66658°E) villages of Yessan ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4]
Pronouns
Yessan-Mayo pronouns from Foreman (1974), as cited in Foley (2018):[5][2]
sg du pl 1 ene nenden nemen 2 ne kefen kemen 3m re fe me 3f te
External links
- Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's (DL2) that includes Yessan language materials.
References
- ^ Yessan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ^ Foreman, Velma M. 1974. Grammar of Yessan-Mayo. Language Data, Asian-Pacific Series 4. Santa Ana, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics.