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 is 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.

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  • 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 is 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 is attached to the surface; and whether it is 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 are 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 (or laminal vs apical labial-alveolar 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..
  • Yélî Dnye wird auf Rossel Island, einer zum Louisiade-Archipel gehörenden Insel, von 3.750 Menschen gesprochen (Zählung des Rossel Health Centre 1998, zitiert nach Ethnologue 2005). Alternative Bezeichnungen für die Sprache sind Yele (in der Literatur meist verwendet), Yeleyong, Yela, Yeletnye, Yelidnye oder Rossel.
  • Język yele lub yélî dnye - język izolowany używany w Papui-Nowej Gwinei. Znany z oryginalnej fonologii, ma dużo spółgłosek koartykulowanych.
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  • 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 is 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.
  • Yélî Dnye wird auf Rossel Island, einer zum Louisiade-Archipel gehörenden Insel, von 3.750 Menschen gesprochen (Zählung des Rossel Health Centre 1998, zitiert nach Ethnologue 2005). Alternative Bezeichnungen für die Sprache sind Yele (in der Literatur meist verwendet), Yeleyong, Yela, Yeletnye, Yelidnye oder Rossel.
  • Język yele lub yélî dnye - język izolowany używany w Papui-Nowej Gwinei. Znany z oryginalnej fonologii, ma dużo spółgłosek koartykulowanych.
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