Arop-Lokep language

Arop-Lokep
Region	Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	3,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Ngero–Vitiaz Korap Arop-Lokep
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	apr
Glottolog	arop1243[2]

Arop-Lokep (also spelled Arop-Lukep) is an Oceanic language spoken by 3,015 people (as of 2000) on four islands in the Siassi chain in the Vitiaz Strait in Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Close-mid			o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open	a

/ɨ/ is rare.

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Stop	Voiceless	p	t	k	ʔ
	Voiced	b	d	a
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Fricative			s
Trill			r
Lateral			l

/ʔ/ is rare.

References

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

• D'Jernes, Lucille S. (2002). "Arop-Lokep". In Lynch, John, Ross, Malcolm & Crowley, Terry. The Oceanic Languages. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press. pp. 249–269.
• Raymond, Mary; Parker, Steve (2005). "Initial and medial geminate trills in Arop-Lokep". Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35 (1): 99–111. doi:10.1017/S002510030500188X.