Yei language

Not to be confused with Yei language (Bantu).

Yei
Yey
Region	New Guinea
Native speakers	2,400 (2001)[1]
Language family	Trans-Fly – Bulaka River? Yam Yei
Dialects	Upper Lower
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jei
Glottolog	yeii1239

Yei (Yey, Jei, Je, Yei-Nan) is a Papuan language of New Guinea. The Upper and Lower Yey dialects are only mutually intelligible with difficulty.

Distribution

According to Evans (2018), Yei is spoken in the villages of Po, Torai, Bupul, Tanas, and Kwel in Elikobal District [id], in eastern Merauke Regency, Indonesia.^[2]

References

1. Yei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.