Yessan language

Yessan-Mayo (also known as Yessan or Mayo, as well as Yamano[3]) is a Papuan language spoken by 2000 people in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Maio (4.21379°S 142.675929°E / -4.21379; 142.675929 (Maio)) and Yessan (4.219025°S 142.66658°E / -4.219025; 142.66658 (Yessan)) villages of Yessan ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[4][5]

Yessan
Yessan-Mayo
RegionEast Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
2,000 (2000 census)[1]
Sepik
Language codes
ISO 639-3yss
Glottologyess1239
ELPYessan-Mayo[2]

Pronouns

Yessan-Mayo pronouns from Foreman (1974), as cited in Foley (2018):[6][3]

sgdupl
1 enenendennemen
2 nekefenkemen
3m refeme
3f te

References

  1. Yessan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Yessan-Mayo.
  3. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  4. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  6. Foreman, Velma M. 1974. Grammar of Yessan-Mayo. Language Data, Asian-Pacific Series 4. Santa Ana, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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