Yaqay language

Yaqay
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jaq
Glottolog yaqa1246[2]

Yaqay (Yaqai, Jakai, Jaqai) is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by over ten thousand people. It is also called Mapi or Sohur; dialects are Oba-Miwamon, Nambiomon-Mabur, Bapai.

References

  1. Yaqay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yaqay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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