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Melpa

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: med

Population	130,000 (1991 SIL).
Region	Western Highlands Province, Hagen District.
Language maps	Papua New Guinea, Map 6, reference number 296 Papua New Guinea, Map 9, reference number 296
Alternate names	Hagen, Medlpa
Dialects	Tembagla (Temboka). Only slight dialect differences.
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Chimbu-Wahgi, Hagen, Melpa
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. NT: 1965–1995.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Swidden agriculturalists: sweet potatoes, yams, taro, maize, coffee. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Melpa Organised Phonology Data.  

BOLYANATZ, Alexander H., author. 1995. Hegemony and voice in Papua New Guinea [reviews of: Voices of conflict, by Andrew Strathern and Review of: Constructing inequality: The fabrication of a hierarchy of virtue among the Etoro, by Raymond C. Kelly].

RUBY, John; STUCKY, Alfred; STUCKY, Dellene, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1990. Melpa phonology.  

STUCKY, Alfred; STUCKY, Dellene, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1995. Melpa verbs and morphophonemics: an interim report.  

Vernacular Publications

Melpa ik mbo mbuk. 1990.

Melpa ik mbo wu nga buk. 1990.