Manep
Malas
Simbukanam
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
Native speakers
650 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mkr
Glottologmala1495

Manep (Malas, Simbukanam) is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[2]

There are two dialects named after the villages in which they are spoken:[3]

The Malas and Simbukanam dialects differ slightly from each other.[3]

References

  1. ^ Manep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
  3. ^ a b Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.
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