Social:Yoba language

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Short description: Extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea
Yoba
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionCentral Province
Extinct1980se25
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Western Oceanic
        • Papuan Tip
          • Central
            • Oumic
              • Magoric
                • Yoba
Language codes
ISO 639-3yob
Glottologyoba1237[1]

Yoba is an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and in turn influencing them, before speakers shifted to those languages.

External links

  • Paradisec has the Tom Dutton collection (TD1) that includes Yoba language materials.

See also

  • Magori language, a similar situation

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Yoba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yoba1237. 




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