Nipsan

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Situation

[under construction]

Nipsan, called Yali (Yaly) by its speakers, … used by government and missions to refer to … valley of the Iluk river … east of Yale Kosarek (Heeschen 1978: 6-7, 1992: 8.)

Sources

Bromley (n.d.) unpublished survey vocabulary of Yaly (unobtained)

Voorhoeve (1975: 116) 37 comparative terms for Yaly after Bromley

Heeschen (1992) Yale dictionary includes some Iluk valley forms

Phonology

[under construction]

Pronouns

[under construction]

Verbal morphology

Nothing is known about Nipsan verbal morphology.