Lepki language

Lepki
Native to	Western New Guinea
Region	Jayawijaya Kabupaten, Okbibab Kecamatan, on the Sogber River
Native speakers	(530 cited 1991)^[1]
Language family	Lepki–Murkim? Lepki
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

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

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