Lepki–Murkim | |
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Geographic distribution |
Papua |
Linguistic classification | no demonstrated relatives |
Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | lepk1239 |
The Lepki–Murkim languages are a pair of apparently related but otherwise isolated languages of New Guinea,Lepki and Murkim.
In 2007, on a Papuan language website, a Mark Donohue reported that,
Hammarström (2010) is of the opinion that the few lexical similarities with Murkim are likely to be loans, and that Lepki should probably be considered a language isolate; he did not have access to any Kembra data. However, Glottolog 2.4 (2015), edited by Hammarström, said,