Melpa language
Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Melpa (Medlpa, Mbowamb) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Mount Hagen District, Western Highlands Province |
Native speakers | (130,000 cited 1991)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | med |
Glottolog | melp1238 |
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Melpa is a Pandanus language used during karuka harvest.[2] Melpa has a voiceless velar lateral fricative, written as a double-barred el (Ⱡ, ⱡ). Melpa is notable for its binary counting system. A dictionary of Melpa has been compiled by Stewart, Strathern and Trantow (2011).[3]