Manep language

Manep
	Malas
	Simbukanam
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
Native speakers	650 (2003)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Croisilles Isumrud Dimir–Malas Manep; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mkr
Glottolog	mala1495[2]

Manep (Malas, Simbukanam) is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

There are two dialects named after the villages in which they are spoken:[3]

Malas dialect, spoken in Malas village (4.688875°S 145.606541°E / -4.688875; 145.606541 (Malas))
Simbukanam dialect, spoken in Simbukanam village

The Malas and Simbukanam dialects differ slightly from each other.[3]

References

Manep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Malas". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.

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