| Lepki–Murkim | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Papua:Pegunungan Bintang Regency |
| Linguistic classification | Pauwasi or independentlanguage family
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | lepk1239 |
TheLepki–Murkim languages are a pair to three recently discovered languages of New Guinea,Lepki,Murkim[1] and possiblyKembra.[2]
Øystein 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,Søren 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 thePauwasi family.[2]Foley (2018) classifies them separately as an independent language family.[5] Foley (2018) also classifiesKembra andKembra as isolates, but does not exclude the possibility of their being related to Lepki–Murkim.
Basic vocabulary ofLepki andMurkim showing cognates and non-cognates listed inFoley (2018):[5]
| gloss | Lepki | Murkim |
|---|---|---|
| ‘bird’ | afai | afi |
| ‘blood’ | yiri | mal |
| ‘bone’ | kɔw | kok |
| ‘breast’ | nom | mam |
| ‘ear’ | bwi | bwi |
| ‘eat’ | ɲis | ɲẽlo |
| ‘egg’ | haiden | nel |
| ‘eye’ | yɛmon | amol |
| ‘fire’ | yaɣala | yo |
| ‘give’ | ken o | knewo |
| ‘go’ | aːro | haro |
| ‘ground’ | tɛtɛp | andok |
| ‘hair’ | yɛt | (inok-)ʔtair |
| ‘hear’ | ofa o | fao |
| ‘I’ | aro | nuːk |
| ‘leg’ | kol | ba |
| ‘louse’ | nɪm | im |
| ‘man’ | rawil | frawil |
| ‘moon’ | roɣivei | kaya(bi) |
| ‘name’ | gye | ka ~ kako |
| ‘one’ | kutuɣap | hel |
| ‘road, path’ | masin | mesain |
| ‘see’ | boɣo | bowo |
| ‘sky’ | yiris ilaɣo | smomya |
| ‘stone’ | sauf | oːn |
| ‘sun’ | mom | kayakalo |
| ‘tongue’ | braw | prouk |
| ‘tooth’ | kal | kal |
| ‘tree’ | ya | yamul |
| ‘two’ | kaisi | kais |
| ‘water’ | kel | kel |
| ‘we’ | yiris | nakmere |
| ‘woman’ | konan | wonak |
| ‘you (sg)’ | yoyo | hak(o) |