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Arop-Lokep language
| Arop-Lokep | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 3,015 (2000 census) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Western North New Guinea Ngero-Vitiaz Vitiaz Korap Arop-Lokep |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | paa | |
| ISO 639-3: | apr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Arop-Lokep (also spelled Arop-Lukep) is an Oceanic language spoken by 3,015 people (as of 2000) on four islands in the Siassi chain in the Vitiaz Strait in Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
/ɨ/ is rare.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ |
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | s | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
/ʔ/ is rare.
References
- D'Jernes, Lucille S. (2002). "Arop-Lokep", in Lynch, John, Ross, Malcolm & Crowley, Terry: The Oceanic Languages. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 249–269.
- Raymond, Mary; Parker, Steve (2005). "Initial and medial geminate trills in Arop-Lokep". Journal of the International Phonetic Association 35 (1): 99–111. DOI:10.1017/S002510030500188X.
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