language: yey

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has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/yey
has gloss	eng: Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyeyi) is an endangered Bantu language spoken by perhaps 45,000 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.
lexicalization	eng: Yeyi language
subclass of	e/Guthrie classification of Bantu languages
instance of	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Guthrie_classification_of_Bantu_languages
instance of	http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Guthrie_classification_of_Bantu_languages