Everything about Y L Dnye Language totally explained
The
Yélî Dnye language, also known as
Yele, is the language of
Rossel island, the easternmost island in the
Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of
Papua New Guinea. For now it's best considered a
language isolate, but it may turn out to be related to the
Anêm and
Ata language isolates of
New Britain in a tentative
Yele-West New Britain family. There are about 4000 speakers.
Yele is one of the better known
East Papuan languages. It has been studied extensively by
cognitive linguists. One of its interesting features is its extensive set of spatial
postpositions. For example, Yele has eleven postpositions equivalent to English
on; using different ones depending on such things as whether the object is on a table (horizontal), a wall (vertical), or atop a peak; whether or not it's attached to the surface; and whether it's solid or granular (distributed).
Yele also has a uniquely rich set of
doubly articulated consonants. In nearly all the languages of the world which have them, these are
labial-velar consonants — that is, they're pronounced simultaneously with the lips and the back of the tongue, such as a simultaneous
p and
k. Only Yele contrasts other doubly articulated consonants: it also has distinct
labial-alveolar and
labial-postalveolar consonants, as illustrated below.
The two
coronal articulations are (1)
laminal and slightly pre-alveolar, sometimes transcribed tʸ, nʸ, etc., and (2)
apical and slightly post-alveolar, sometimes transcribed ṭ, ṇ etc. or simply t, n, etc..
Pronouns
Yélî Dnye has two sets of pronouns: free and possessive. They are,
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