Manep (Malas, Simbukanam) is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[2]
There are two dialects named after the villages in which they are spoken:[3]
- Malas dialect, spoken in Malas village (4°41′20″S 145°36′24″E / 4.688875°S 145.606541°E)
- Simbukanam dialect, spoken in Simbukanam village
The Malas and Simbukanam dialects differ slightly from each other.[3]
References
- ^ Manep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- ^ a b Pick, Andrew (2019). "Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge". Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London.