Mungkip language explained

Munkip
States:Papua New Guinea
Region:Morobe Province
Ethnicity:670 (2009)
Speakers:12
Date:2009
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Papuan
Fam1:Trans–New Guinea
Fam2:Finisterre–Huon
Fam3:Finisterre
Fam4:Erap
Iso3:mpv
Glotto:mung1272
Glottorefname:Mungkip

Munkip (Mungkip) is a nearly extinct Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Kasuka (-6.4602°N 146.7203°W) and Mungkip (-6.4786°N 146.6303°W) villages of Sintogora ward, Wain-Erap Rural LLG.

Phonology

The phonology for Mungkip is as follows:[1]

Consonants
LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarUvularGlottal
Nasalpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
StopVoicelesspronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Aspiratedpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Voicedpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Affricatepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
FricativeVoicelesspronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Voicedpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Tap/Flappronounced as /link/
Approximantpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Vowels
FrontCenterBack
Closepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Near-closepronounced as /link/
Close-midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Openpronounced as /link/

Notes and References

  1. Thom Retsema and Margaret Potter and Rachel Gray. 2009. Mungkip: an endangered language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2009-015. 1-35.