Lepki language

Lepki
Native to	Western New Guinea
Region	Highland Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency - Teiraplu, Yetfa, and Aboy districts, west of the Sobger River
Ethnicity	Lepki
Native speakers	(530 cited 1991)[1]
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Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the Lepki^[2] that includes a word list.^[3]

Phonology

Lepki is a tonal language.^[4]: 466

References

1. Lepki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Glottolog 4.4 - Andersen, Øystein Lund 2007".
3. 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.
4. 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.

Further reading

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