Arop-Lokep language

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Arop-Lokep
Spoken in:	Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea
Total speakers:	3,015 (2000 census)
Language family:	Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian   Central-Eastern    Eastern     Oceanic      Western       North New Guinea        Ngero-Vitiaz         Vitiaz          Korap           Arop-Lokep
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	paa
ISO 639-3:	apr
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

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.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.2 Consonants 2 References

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

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

/ɨ/ is rare.

[edit] Consonants

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

/ʔ/ is rare.

[edit] References

• D'Jernes, Lucille S. (2002). "Arop-Lokep", in Lynch, John, Ross, Malcolm & Crowley, Terry: The Oceanic Languages. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 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.