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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

  • Yimas

    French

  • Yimas

    German

  • Idioma yimas

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yee

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