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Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is an endangered Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50,000 Yeyi people along the
Okavango River in Namibia and Botswana. Yeyi, influenced by Juu languages, is one of several Bantu languages along the Okavango
with clicks. Indeed, it has the largest known inventory of clicks of any Bantu language, with dental, alveolar, palatal, and
lateral articulations. Though most of its older speakers prefer Yeyi in normal conversation, it is being gradually phased
out in Botswana by a popular move towards Tswana, with Yeyi only being learned by children in a few villages. Yeyi speakers
in the Caprivi Strip of north-eastern Namibia, however, retain Yeyi in villages (including Linyanti), but may also speak the
regional lingua franca, Lozi. The main dialect is called Shirwanga. A slight majority of Botswana Yeyi are monolingual in
the national language, Tswana, and most of the rest are bilingual. |
Names (more)[en] Yeyi language |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : yeyLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yeyhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:yey More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: yeyFreebase ISO 639-3 : yey GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |