PRESTO (Prod. Lele Chill)

Yimas

The Yimas language is spoken by the Yimas people, who populate the Sepik River Basin region of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken primarily in Yimas village (4.680562°S 143.548847°E / -4.680562; 143.548847 (Yimas 1)), Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province. It is a member of the Lower-Sepik language family.: 1  All 250-300 speakers of Yimas live in two villages along the lower reaches of the Arafundi River, which stems from a tributary of the Sepik River known as the Karawari River.: 7 Yimas is a polysynthetic language with (somewhat) free word order, and is an ergative-absolutive language morphologically but not syntactically, although it has several other case-like relations encoded on its verbs. It has ten main noun classes (genders), and a unique number sy… more »