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Language code: yap

Technical information about ISO 639 language code yap

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The table below provides technical details for the Yapese language, designated by the yap code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

yap

Name

Yapese

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Tomil–GagilRumungMaap
Related languages
Wuvulu-AuaSeimatMussau-EmiraKaniet
Key facts
Spoken by roughly 6–7 thousand peopleExhibits phonemic vowel-length contrastsIncludes ejective stops and glottalized consonants, rare in Oceanic tonguesWritten with the Latin alphabet plus diacritics marking length and glottalizationA detailed Yapese–English dictionary was compiled by linguist John Thayer Jensen.
Sample phrase

Maaluw, ngeni ko rae?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Yapese language, identified by the code yap, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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