Manep language

Manep
Manep
Malas
Simbukanam
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province
Native speakers	650 (2003)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Croisilles Isumrud Dimir–Malas Manep; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mkr
Glottolog	mala1495

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 / -4.688875; 145.606541 (Malas))
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.