Lepki language

Lepki
Native toWestern New Guinea
RegionHighland Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency - Teiraplu, Yetfa, and Aboy districts, west of the Sobger River
Native speakers
(530 cited 1991)
Pauwasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3lpe
Glottologlepk1238
ELPLepki

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Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the Lepki that includes a word list.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.: 466 



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