This Lexvo.org page describes the entity referred to by the URI http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yey. A machine-readable RDF version of this description is provided here.
| rdf:type | lvont:Language |
| rdfs:comment | Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyeyi) 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. ('en' language string) |
| rdfs:label | Yeyi language ('en' language string) |
| rdfs:label | Yeyi ('en' language string) |
| rdfs:seeAlso | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeyi_language |
| rdfs:seeAlso | http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_yey |
| rdfs:seeAlso | http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yey |
| rdfs:seeAlso | http://www.llmap.org/languages/yey.html |
| owl:sameAs | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yeyi_language |
| owl:sameAs | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Yeyi_language |
| lvont:broader | lexvo:wordnet/30/noun/Bantu_1_10_00 |
| lvont:iso639P3PCode | yey (string) |
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/Yeyi%20language |
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/Yeyi |
| lvont:nearlySameAs | http://www.glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/yeyi1239 |
| lvont:usedIn | geo:-20.0,23.5 |
| lvont:usedIn | lexvo:iso3166/BW |
| lvont:usedIn | lexvo:iso3166/NA |
| skos:prefLabel | Yeyi ('en' language string) |
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