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 Glottal
      plain lateral   plain labial plain labial
Stop voiceless [p] [t]     [k] [kʷ]    
voiced [b] [d]     [ɡ] [ɡʷ]    
Affricate voiceless       [tʃ]        
voiced       [dʒ]        
Fricative voiceless   [s]         [h] [hʷ]
Nasal [m] [n]   [s]        
Tap   [ɾ]            
Approximant     [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.
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