Yoba language
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.
| Yoba | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Central Province |
| Extinct | (2 non-primary speakers reported 1981)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yob |
| Glottolog | yoba1237[2] |
See also
- Magori language, a similar situation
References
- Yoba at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yoba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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