Lepki language

Lepki
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)
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Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the Lepki^[2] that includes a word list.^[3]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

^ 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.