LepkiâMurkim | |
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Geographic distribution | Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency |
Linguistic classification |
Pauwasi or independent
language family
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | lepk1239 |
The LepkiâMurkim languages are a pair to three recently discovered languages of New Guinea, Lepki, Murkim [1] and possibly Kembra. [2]
Ăystein Lund Andersen has written an ethnography sketch on the Lepki that includes a wordlist of Lepki language and songs. [3]
In 2007, on a Papuan language website, Mark Donohue reported that,
However, SĂžren Wichmann (2013) found that Murkim and Lepki at least appear to be very closely related, [4] a position accepted by Glottolog. [1] Usher (2018) classifies the three languages in the southern branch of the Pauwasi family. [2] Foley (2018) classifies them separately as an independent language family. [5] Foley (2018) also classifies Kembra and Kembra as isolates, but does not exclude the possibility of their being related to LepkiâMurkim.
Basic vocabulary of Lepki and Murkim showing cognates and non-cognates listed in Foley (2018): [5]
gloss | Lepki | Murkim |
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âbirdâ | afai | afi |
âbloodâ | yiri | mal |
âboneâ | kÉw | kok |
âbreastâ | nom | mam |
âearâ | bwi | bwi |
âeatâ | ÉČis | ÉČáșœlo |
âeggâ | haiden | nel |
âeyeâ | yÉmon | amol |
âfireâ | yaÉŁala | yo |
âgiveâ | ken o | knewo |
âgoâ | aËro | haro |
âgroundâ | tÉtÉp | andok |
âhairâ | yÉt | (inok-)Êtair |
âhearâ | ofa o | fao |
âIâ | aro | nuËk |
âlegâ | kol | ba |
âlouseâ | nÉȘm | im |
âmanâ | rawil | frawil |
âmoonâ | roÉŁivei | kaya(bi) |
ânameâ | gye | ka ~ kako |
âoneâ | kutuÉŁap | hel |
âroad, pathâ | masin | mesain |
âseeâ | boÉŁo | bowo |
âskyâ | yiris ilaÉŁo | smomya |
âstoneâ | sauf | oËn |
âsunâ | mom | kayakalo |
âtongueâ | braw | prouk |
âtoothâ | kal | kal |
âtreeâ | ya | yamul |
âtwoâ | kaisi | kais |
âwaterâ | kel | kel |
âweâ | yiris | nakmere |
âwomanâ | konan | wonak |
âyou (sg)â | yoyo | hak(o) |