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SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2009-015

Mungkip: an endangered language

Authors  Gray, Rachel
Potter, Margaret
Retsema, Thom
Abstract 

On 23 March 2006 the SIL-Papua New Guinea language survey team visited Mungkip village in Morobe Province, where the Mungkip language is spoken. The goals of the survey were to identify the boundaries of the Mungkip language and to evaluate its vitality. The language was found to have low vitality; language shift toward Uri and Tok Pisin has taken place, and there are currently only a few Mungkip speakers.

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Published  2009
Language  Mungkip [mpv]
Ethnologue entry for Mungkip
Country  Papua New Guinea
Subject  Language surveys

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