Yalë language
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The Yalë language, also known as Nagatman, is a language isolate
in northwestern Papua New Guinea
. There are about 600 speakers, of whom 5% are monolingual.
Language isolate
A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. They are in effect language families consisting of a single...
in northwestern Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. There are about 600 speakers, of whom 5% are monolingual.