Download coordinates as: The Yalë language, also known as Yadë, Nagatman, or Nagatiman, is spoken in northwestern Papua New Guinea.
[1] Yalë is spoken in Nagatiman (3°44′42″S 141°28′18″E / 3.744917°S 141.471593°E / -3.744917; 141.471593 (Nagatiman)) and several other villages of Green River Rural LLG in Sandaun Province.
[5] Yalë is in extensive trade and contact with Busa, a likely language isolate spoken just to the south.
Yalë has complex verbal inflection and SOV word order.
[5] Aannested, Aidan (2020)[6] gives the following phonology for Yadë (Yalë): Pronouns are:[5] Verbal conjugation affixes are:[5] Most nouns are not pluralized, and only nouns with human or animate reference or with high local salience may be pluralized using the suffix -rɛ ~ -re:[5] Other plural nouns are irregular:[5] The following basic vocabulary words are from Conrad and Dye (1975),[7] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[8]