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.

  • 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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