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Melpa language

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Phonology
Consonants Vowels
Melpa language in films
References
External links

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|name=Melpa
|states=Papua New Guinea
|region=Mount Hagen District, Western Highlands Province
|speakers=130,000
|date=1991
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Trans–New Guinea
|fam2=Chimbu–Wahgi
|fam3=Hagen
|script=Latin
|iso3=med
|glotto=melp1238
|glottorefname=Melpa
}}

Melpa (also written Medlpa) 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.

Melpa has a pandanus language used during karuka harvest.^[1]

Melpa has a voiceless velar lateral fricative, written as a double-barred el (Ⱡ, ⱡ). It is notable for its binary counting system.

Decimal	Medlpa	Interpretation
1	tenda	"one"
2	ragl	"two"
3	ragltika	"two-one"
4	tembokak	"four"
5	pömp tsi gudl	"one past four"
6	pömp ragl gudl	"two past four"
7	pömp ragltika gudl	"two-one past four"
8	engak	"eight"
9	pömp tsi pip	"one past eight"
10	pömp ragl pip	"two past eight"

Phonology

Consonants

Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Voiceless stop	p	t̪	t	k
Prenasalized stop	ᵐb	ⁿd̪	ⁿd	ᵑɡ
Nasal	m	n̪	n	ŋ
Rhotic	r~ɾ
Lateral	l̪d̪	l	ʟ~ʟ̝̊ <ⱡ>
Approximant	w	j

Vowels

Front	Central	Mid
High	i	ɨ <ʉ>	u
Near-high	ɪ <i>	ʊ <u>
Mid	e	o
Low	a

Melpa language in films

Temboka, a dialect of Melpa, is the native language of the Ganiga tribe,^[2] who featured prominently in the Highlands Trilogy of documentaries by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly (First Contact, Joe Leahy's Neighbours, and Black Harvest).

The documentary Ongka's Big Moka also has Melpa dialogue.

References

1. ^{{cite journal |last1=Franklin |first1=Karl J. |title=A Ritual Pandanus Language of New Guinea |journal=Oceania |date=September 1972 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=66–76 |doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.1972.tb01197.x |language=English |oclc=883021898}}
2. ^{{cite news |last=Connolly |first=Bob |title=Filmmaker Bob Connolly returns to PNG 25 years after 'Black Harvest' |work=The Australian Financial Review |date=14 February 2017|url=http://www.afr.com/brand/afr-magazine/filmmaker-bob-connolly-returns-to-png-25-years-after-black-harvest-20161013-gs1idp |accessdate=25 January 2017}}

External links

Melpa laterals
Kay Owens. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150926003303/http://www.uog.ac.pg/glec/Key/Kay/owens131.htm "The Work of Glendon Lean on the Counting Systems of Papua New Guinea and Oceania"], section "The Melpa Counting System". Mathematics Education Research Journal vol. 13 (April 2001), {{doi|10.1007/BF03217098}}
Melpa Phonology

3 : Chimbu–Wahgi languages|Languages of Western Highlands Province|Pandanus avoidance registers

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