Manep language

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Manep
Malas
Simbukanam
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
Native speakers
650 (2003) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mkr
Glottolog mala1495

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

There are two dialects named after the villages in which they are spoken: [2]

The Malas and Simbukanam dialects differ slightly from each other. [2]

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References

  1. Manep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.