Arop-Lokep language

Arop-Lokep
Region Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
3,000 (2000 census)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 apr
Glottolog arop1243[2]

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 a
Nasal m n ŋ
Fricative s
Trill r
Lateral l

/ʔ/ is rare.

External links

A sample of Arop-Lokep can be listened to here: http://globalrecordings.net/en/program/C16210

References

  1. Arop-Lokep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Arop-Lokep". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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