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Foreman Velma. Grammar of Yessan-Mayo
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Publisher: SIL - Pacific Asian Series
Publication date: 1974
Number of pages: 297The Yessan-Mayo language is a language spoken by approximately 900 speakers living in the Ambunt i Sub -district of the East Sepik District of Papua New Guinea. There are two dialects. The major dialect is spoken by more than 500 people who live in villages and hamlets situated on the north and south shores of the Sepik River, 20-30 miles upriver from Ambunti. People speaking the other dialect (called Yaw by the major dialect speakers] live in villages 13-18 miles north and west of the villages on the river.
Miss Helen Marten and I began linguistic research into the Yessan-Mayo language in May 1962 under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. We lived five years in the village of Yessan, the largest of the Yessan-Mayo villages, and five years in the village of Mayo, the second largest village. Both of these villages represent the major dialect and this paper is based on data collected solely from this dialect. We have spent a total of 52 months in the village location and approximately 8 months have been spent in linguistic workshops at the Summer Institute of Linguistic's operational base at Ukarumpa.1
During the first years of residence with the Yessan-Mayo people, we used a number of language helpers, both men and women. Since 1964, Robert Merkwusi, approximately 38 years of age, has been our ma in language helper. He has gathered text material (folk stories, legends, sermons, how-to-do-it stories, personal experience stories,etc) from a variety of people on the tape recorder and has transcribed these. This text material has been the basic source material for the analysis which is presented here.
A. Capellj A Linguistics Survey Of The South-Western Pacific, page 46, states that Yessan-Mayo may turn out to be related to some of the upper Sepik languages. Don aycock, Languages of the Lumi Sub-district (West Sepik District) Net) Guinea, does classify essan-Mayo as a member of the Tama Family of the Upper Sepik Phylum. Tama, the word for 'man', is common to the other three languages classified as members of this family.
Publication date: 1974
Number of pages: 297The Yessan-Mayo language is a language spoken by approximately 900 speakers living in the Ambunt i Sub -district of the East Sepik District of Papua New Guinea. There are two dialects. The major dialect is spoken by more than 500 people who live in villages and hamlets situated on the north and south shores of the Sepik River, 20-30 miles upriver from Ambunti. People speaking the other dialect (called Yaw by the major dialect speakers] live in villages 13-18 miles north and west of the villages on the river.
Miss Helen Marten and I began linguistic research into the Yessan-Mayo language in May 1962 under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. We lived five years in the village of Yessan, the largest of the Yessan-Mayo villages, and five years in the village of Mayo, the second largest village. Both of these villages represent the major dialect and this paper is based on data collected solely from this dialect. We have spent a total of 52 months in the village location and approximately 8 months have been spent in linguistic workshops at the Summer Institute of Linguistic's operational base at Ukarumpa.1
During the first years of residence with the Yessan-Mayo people, we used a number of language helpers, both men and women. Since 1964, Robert Merkwusi, approximately 38 years of age, has been our ma in language helper. He has gathered text material (folk stories, legends, sermons, how-to-do-it stories, personal experience stories,etc) from a variety of people on the tape recorder and has transcribed these. This text material has been the basic source material for the analysis which is presented here.
A. Capellj A Linguistics Survey Of The South-Western Pacific, page 46, states that Yessan-Mayo may turn out to be related to some of the upper Sepik languages. Don aycock, Languages of the Lumi Sub-district (West Sepik District) Net) Guinea, does classify essan-Mayo as a member of the Tama Family of the Upper Sepik Phylum. Tama, the word for 'man', is common to the other three languages classified as members of this family.
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