Tobati language
| Tobati | |
|---|---|
| Yotafa | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Papua |
| Ethnicity | Tobati |
Native speakers | 100 (2007) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tti |
| Glottolog | toba1266 |
| ELP | Tobati |
Tobati is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Tobati, or Yotafa, is an Austronesian language within the Oceanic branch, from the Sarmi–Jayapura subfamily, in Jayapura bay in Papua province, Indonesia. Notably, Tobati displays a very rare object–subject–verb word order.
Tobati was once thought to be a Papuan language because as recently as 1952, it had a characteristically Papuan subject–object–verb word order.