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Yeyi (autoethnonym Shiyɛyi) is an endangered Bantu language spoken by many of the approximately 50000 Yeyi 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.

ISO 639-3 code
yey
family
Bantu languages, Benue–Congo languages, Bantoid languages, Atlantic–Congo languages
spoken in
Botswana, Namibia, Okavango River

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