Concept information
Preferred term
yeeYimas
Type
-
Language
Definition
- The Yimas language is spoken by the Yimas people of Papua New Guinea. It is a polysynthetic language with (somewhat) free word order. It is an ergative-absolutive language morphologically but not syntactically, although it has several other case-like relations encoded on its verbs. It has over 9 classes (genders) of nouns, and a unique number system.
Entry terms
- Yimas language
ISO 639-3 code
- yee
Notation
- yee
In other languages
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Yimas
French
-
Yimas
German
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Idioma yimas
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yee
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