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 s h
Rhotic ɾ
Lateral l
Vowel Phonemes of Bukiyip
Front Central Back
High i ɨ u
Mid e ə o
Low a

References

  1. Bukiyip at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bukiyip". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.