Yambes language

Yambes
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
1,100 (2003)
Language codes
ISO 639-3ymb
Glottologyamb1254
ELPYambes

Yambes is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea spoken mostly by older adults. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Malcolm Ross (2005). Dryer (2024), as cited in Drinfield (2024), classifies it as a Kombioic language.

It is spoken in Yambes village (3°32′44″S 142°44′48″E / 3.545596°S 142.746582°E / -3.545596; 142.746582 (Yambes 1)) of Dreikikier Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.

References

  1. 1 2 Yambes at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Dryer, Matthew S. 2024. Towards a genealogical classification of Torricelli languages. Unpublished manuscript.
  3. ↑ Drinfeld, Andrey (2024). A Grammar of Aro, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea (Ph.D. dissertation). University at Buffalo.
  4. ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.