Yele

Facts

Language: Yele
Alternate names: Yélî Dnye
Language code: yle
Language family: Yele-West New Britain, Yele (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: 6,000
Vulnerability: Threatened
Script: Latin script.

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Christian.

Yele is sometimes grouped with the other languages of the East Papuan islands (Dunn et al. 2005a,b, Ross 2001, Wurm 1975b) but none of these groupings can be demonstrated with orthodox comparative methodology" (Hammarström, forthcoming).