Tapei language

Tapei is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea. It is close to Nanubae; the name Alfendio was once used for both.

Tapei
Imboin
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
290 (2005)[1]
Madang – Upper Yuat
Language codes
ISO 639-3afp
Glottologtape1242[2]

Locations

Kassell, et al. (2018) list Imanmeri, Wambrumas, and Yamandim as the villages where Nanubae is spoken. Additionally, there are some speakers in Imboin, which also has Andai speakers.[3]

According to Ethnologue (22nd edition), it is spoken in Awim (4.753283°S 143.580166°E / -4.753283; 143.580166 (Awim)) and Imboin (4.792407°S 143.661468°E / -4.792407; 143.661468 (Imboin)) villages of Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[4][5]

Phonology

Auwim consonants are:[6]

ptck
ᵐbⁿdᶮɟᵑg
mnɲŋ
r
wj
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References

  1. Tapei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tapei". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Kassell, Alison, Bonnie MacKenzie and Margaret Potter. 2018. Three Arafundi Languages: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Andai, Nanubae, and Tapei. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2017-003.
  4. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  6. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". 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. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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