The Sepik languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1956 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. The languages tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. The best known Sepik language is Iatmül. The most populous are Iatmül's fellow Ndu languages Abelam and Boiken, with about 35 000 speakers apiece.

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  • The Sepik languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1956 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. The languages tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. The best known Sepik language is Iatmül. The most populous are Iatmül's fellow Ndu languages Abelam and Boiken, with about 35 000 speakers apiece. The Sepik languages, like their Ramu neighbors, appear to have three-vowel systems, /ɨ ə a/, that distinguish only vowel height. Phonetic [i e o u] are a result of palatal and labial assimilation to adjacent consonants. It is suspected that the Ndu languages may reduce this to a two-vowel system, with /ɨ/ epenthetic (Foley 1986).
  • Сепик языки – группа папуасских языков, распространённых на территории Индонезии и Папуа-Новой Гвинеи. Общее число языков, согласно Ethnologue - 50.
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  • a primary family of Papuan languages
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  • Papuan
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  • Sepik
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  • The Sepik languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1956 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. The languages tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. The best known Sepik language is Iatmül. The most populous are Iatmül's fellow Ndu languages Abelam and Boiken, with about 35 000 speakers apiece.
  • Сепик языки – группа папуасских языков, распространённых на территории Индонезии и Папуа-Новой Гвинеи. Общее число языков, согласно Ethnologue - 50.
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  • Sepik languages
  • Сепик языки
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