Social:Bipi language

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Short description: West Manus language of Papua New Guinea
Bipi
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionBipi and Sisi Islands, Manus Province
Native speakers
(1,380 cited 2000)e25
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Admiralty Islands
        • Eastern Admiralty Islands
          • Manus
            • West Manus
              • Bipi
Language codes
ISO 639-3biq
Glottologbipi1237[1]

The Bipi language is the westernmost West Manus language. It is spoken by approximately 1200 people on the Bipi and Sisi Islands off the west coast of Manus Island, Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. It has SVO word order.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bipi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bipi1237. 
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named e25

External links

  • Kaipuleohone's Blust collection includes materials on Bipi language.




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