Munkip Language

Munkip
Munkip
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Ethnicity	670 (2009)
Native speakers	12 (2009)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Erap Munkip; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mpv
Glottolog	mung1272
ELP	Munkip

Munkip (Mungkip) is a nearly extinct Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Kasuka ( 6°27′37″S 146°43′13″E / 6.460182°S 146.720285°E / -6.460182; 146.720285 (Kasuka)) and Mungkip ( 6°28′43″S 146°37′49″E / 6.478612°S 146.630269°E / -6.478612; 146.630269 (Mungkip)) villages of Sintogora ward, Wain-Erap Rural LLG.^[1]

Phonology

The phonology for Mungkip is as follows:^[2]

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		/ m/	/ n/		/ ŋ/
Stop	Voiceless	/ p/	/ t/		/ k/	/ q/
	Aspirated				/ kʰ/	/ qʰ/
	Voiced	/ b/	/ d/		/ g/
Affricate			/ d͡z/	/ d͡ʒ/
Fricative	Voiceless	/ f/	/ s/			/ χ/	/ h/
Fricative	Voiced		/ z/			/ ʁ/
Tap/Flap			/ ɾ/
Approximant		/ w/	/ l/	/ j/

^ ^a ^b ^c Munkip at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Thom Retsema and Margaret Potter and Rachel Gray. 2009. Mungkip: an endangered language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2009-015. 1-35.

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