Baropasi language

The Baropasi or Barapasi language is a member of the East Geelvink Bay languages. It is spoken in Upper Waropen District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua, Indonesia. It has about 1,000 speakers.

Baropasi
RegionUpper Waropen District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers
(2,500 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3brp
Glottologbara1375[2]

Phonology

Barapasi is tonal, with a high tone and low tone.[3]:518

Sources
  • Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the World's Languages (New York: Routelage, 1994) p. 111
gollark: I really ought to make a feature which streams osmarks internet radio™ directly into arbitrary voice chats.
gollark: And used it subtly.
gollark: Maybe the people competent enough to do so already *did* obtain the token.
gollark: How unfathomable.
gollark: Why not?

References
  1. Baropasi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Barapasi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 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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