Lepki language

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Lepki
Native to Western New Guinea
Region Jayawijaya Kabupaten, Okbibab Kecamatan, on the Sogber River
Native speakers
530 (1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lpe
Glottolog lepk1238[2]

Lepki is a Papuan language spoken in Western New Guinea, near its probable relative Murkim and the unclassified language Kembra. Only a few hundred words have been recorded, in hastily collected word lists.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lepki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Lepki". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.