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Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,400 (2001)[1] |
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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.
According to Evans (2018), Yei is spoken in the villages of Po, Torai, Bupul, Tanas, and Kwel in Elikobal District , in eastern Merauke Regency, Indonesia.[2]
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