Yele

Yele, known to its speakers as Yeli Dnye, is the language of Rossel Island, the easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea, spoken by essentially the whole Rossel Island population, about 5,000 people as of 2015. It is best considered unclassified, a tentative isolate that some linguists have proposed relating to the Anem and Ata languages of New Britain or to the Papuan Tip language Sudest, though none of these connections is established. Yele is known for an unusually large consonant inventory of 58 attested consonants alongside 34 vowels, including many doubly articulated sounds pronounced at two places at once, and it has subject-object-verb word order along with distinct speech registers used by women and around in-laws.