Lepki language

Lepki is a Papuan language spoken in Western New Guinea, near its relatives Murkim and Kembra. Only a few hundred words have been recorded, in hastily collected word lists.

Lepki
Native toWestern New Guinea
RegionPapua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency - Teiraplu, Yetfa, and Aboy districts, west of the Sobger River
Native speakers
(530 cited 1991)[1]
Pauwasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3lpe
Glottologlepk1238
ELPLepki[2]

Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the Lepki[3] that includes a word list.[4]

Phonology

Lepki is a tonal language.[5]:466

Further reading

  • Andersen, Øystein Lund. 2007. The Lepki People of Sogber River, New Guinea. MA thesis, University of Cenderawasih, Jayapura.

References

  1. Lepki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Lepki.
  3. https://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/40210
  4. http://papuaweb.org/dlib/lap/andersen/lepki.pdf
  5. Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.


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