Bukiyip language

Bukiyip
Mountain Arapesh
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Native speakers
16,000 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Coastal
  • Mountain (Bukiyip)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ape
Glottolog buki1249[2]

Bukiyip (Bukiyúp), or Mountain Arapesh, is an Arapesh language (Torricelli) of Papua New Guinea.

Sound system

Consonant Phonemes of Bukiyip
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
plainround
Nasal m n ɳ
Stopvoiceless p t k
voiced b d ɡɡʷ
Fricative ɳ h
Rhotic ɾ
Lateral l
Vowel Phonemes of Bukiyip
Front Central Back
High i h u
Mid e ə o
Low ɡ

References

  1. Bukiyip at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bukiyip". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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