Lepki
bahasa Lepki
Lepki is a Lepki-Murkim-Kembra language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Lepki is a Papuan language spoken in Western New Guinea, near its relatives Murkim and Kembra in Highland Papua. Only a few hundred words have been recorded, in hastily collected word lists.
Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the Lepki that includes a word list.
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Words in Lepki
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ra* | |
| name | gye* | |
| eye | yEmon* | |
| ear | bwi* | |
| nose | mogwan* | |
| tooth | kal* | |
| tongue | braw* | |
| hand | yilEn* | |
| blood | yiri* | |
| bone | kow* | |
| skin | yit* | |
| knee | bwi* | |
| breast | nom* | |
| liver | b3xak* | |
| water | kEl* | |
| fire | yaxala* | |
| sun | mom* | |
| star | Endi* | |
| stone | saup* | |
| tree | ya* | |
| leaf | nabai* | |
| night | tixa* | |
| dog | nan* | |
| fish | yakEn* | |
| louse | nim* | |
| one | kutuxwap* | |
| two | kaisi* | |
| I | aro* | |
| you | yoyo* | |
| we | yiris* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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