Lepki language

Pauwasi language spoken in Western New Guinea

Lepki
Native to	Western New Guinea
Region	Highland Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency - Teiraplu, Yetfa, and Aboy districts, west of the: Sobger River
Native speakers	(530 cited 1991)
Language family	Pauwasi South Pauwasi Yetfa – South Pauwasi Lepki–Murkim Lepki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`lpe`
Glottolog	`lepk1238`
ELP	Lepki

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

Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the——Lepki that includes a word list.

Phonology※

Lepki is a tonal language.

^ Lepki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Glottolog 4.4 - Andersen, Øystein Lund 2007".
^ Andersen, Øystein Lund (July 2007). "The Lepki people of Sogber River, New Guinea" (PDF). Cenderawasih University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2018.
^ 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. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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

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