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[2]

Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) is an unpublished ethnography on the Lepki[3] that includes a word list.[4]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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lepki". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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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