Bukiyip language

Bukiyip
Mountain Arapesh
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	East Sepik Province
Native speakers	16,000 (2003)[1]
Language family	Torricelli Arapesh Bukiyip
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
					plain	round
Nasal		m	n	ɳ
Stop	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kʷ
	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ	ɡʷ
Fricative			ɳ		h	hʷ
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. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bukiyip". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.