Yali (Yaly, Jalè, Jaly) is a Papuan language of Indonesian New Guinea. The Yali people live east of the Baliem Valley, in the Western Highlands.
Dialectical differentiation is great enough that Ethnologue assigns separate codes to three varieties: Pass Valley, also known as Abenaho, North Ngalik, and Western Yali; subdialects are Pass Valley, Landikma, Apahapsili. Ninia, also known as North Ngalik and Southern Yali (Yali Selatan). Angguruk, also known as Northern Yali. However, almost nothing is known of this language. Not even the pronouns were attested for Ross (2005) to base a classification on.
Siegfried Zöellner, a German missionary, translated the Bible into Yali between 1960 and 1973.
Phonology The phonology of the Yali language:
+ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasalPlosiveplain prenasalaspiratedimplosiveFricativeLateralSemivowel
A /ɡ/ sound at the end of words is pronounced .
+VowelsFrontCentralBackCloseMidLow
Basic words and phrases The following is a list of basic words and phrases in the Yali language: - how are you - thank you - you're welcome - friend - good - that - this - and - speak/talk - language - man - my news/state - your (sg.) news/state - for myself - for yourself - for him/herself - for ourselves - for yourselves/themselves - *end of statement particle - I am pleased - I like that - I have - S/he is my friend - They are my friends - S/he is a good friend - My friends are from America - I speak Yali
Pronouns These are the personal pronouns of the Yali language: +Free pronouns SingularPlural1st personannir2nd personharhir3rd personarir
References
External links Yali (Apahapsili) DoReCo corpus compiled by Sonja Riesberg. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.