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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Bukiyip

Bukiyip

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3ape

Population  16,200 (2003 SIL).
Region  East Sepik Province, west Yangoru District, Torricelli Mountains.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 4, reference number 142
Alternate names   Bukiyúp, Mountain Arapesh
Dialects  Coastal Arapesh, Bukiyip (Mountain Arapesh). Lexical similarity: 60% with Mufian [aoj].
Classification  Torricelli, Kombio-Arapesh, Arapesh
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 15%–25%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Grammar. NT: 1994–2003.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO; 14 noun classes; noun phrase concordance. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Bukiyip Organised Phonology Data.  Available online

CONRAD, Robert J., author. 1987. "Kinds of information in Bukiyip oral narrative discourse."

CONRAD, Robert J.; WOGIGA, Kepas, authors. 1991. An outline of Bukiyip grammar.

Vernacular Publications

Bolan nyapwe Bukiyúp, Tok Pisin, Inglis = Hap tok bilong Bukiyúp na Pisin na Ingli = Phrases in Mountain Arapesh, Melanesian Pidgin and English. 1974.

Kisim save long tok Bukiyip. 1976.

Wolobailúbi walúb ailanab blapwe húlúkatimu apak Papua Nu Gini. 1975.