Yali is a member of the Dani group of Trans-New-Guinea languages. It is spoken by about 30,000 people to the east of Baliem Valley in Yalimo Regency in the north of Highland Papua province in eastern Indonesia.
Yali is also known as Yaly, Jalè, Jaly or Yalimo. Dialects include Pass Valley Yali or Western Yali, Ninia Yali or Southern Yali, and Angguruk Yali or Northern Yali. These dialects are classified as separate languages in some sources, and Pass Valley Yali has subdialects.
A way to write Yali with the Latin alphabet was developed in the 1960s by German missionaries, and the Bible was translated into Yali by Siegfried Zöellner, one of those German missionaries.
Heng tibagma Yesusen it unubam, ”Sembahyang uruk lamuhubon tu hiyag hisamin,” ibareg, ”Ninikni Allah, Hat hunuk suwon fahet nenekolen welamul, Hat hunuk uruk lamul. O aruma Hat wereg ambeg hag aruhu.
Nit suburu yoho nul perukon Haren og nisaruk laruhun.
Ap aruman ninindi siyahap neneptusama niren nenepeleg aha hag toho niren Hat hindi siyahap haptukukmu Hat hapeleg amag. Siyahonen nininggik lit neneptuk halug windat nenebuhun,”
Hweag-utswa ma, at Yesus en, “Hit somban uruk kwit de, diroho uruk kamuhup. Nenakni, dang-hapuk kahe! Hat hunuk mundoho amu eneg welaruhu.
Nit hapma wereg lit, mot-hapuk kamuhuk en nenobahaik ma.
Nenesiburu hupmu hubet nauk kam on og-nesauk kamin.
It ap nit siahapdoho nenobaharuk anyo, niren nenepeleg apdoho embeseruk kahe hag, nit nenesiag haren hapeleg apdoho embeseruk kamin. Ne, nenebut balduk kam no, o fotog-nesa fug
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. The Lord's Prayer - Luke 11: 2-4
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