Ipiko (Epai, Higa, Ipikoi) is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

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, the most divergent of the Inland Gulf languages. Despite being spoken by only a few hundred people, language use is vigorous. It is spoken in Ipiko () and Pahemuba () villages, with Ipiko village being located in Amipoke ward, Baimuru Rural LLG,

Kikori District Kikori District is a district of the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong ...

Gulf Province A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, typically with a narrower opening than a bay, but that is not observable in all geographic areas so named. The term gulf was traditionally used for large highly-indented navigable bodies ...

Bibliography

;Word lists *Chance, Sydney H. 1926. Vocabulary of Ipikoi. ''British New Guinea Annual Report'' 1925–1926: 91–91. *Petterson, Robert. 1999. ''Rumu – English – Hiri-Motu Dictionary''. Palmerston North, New Zealand: International Pacific College. *Z’graggen, John A. 1975. Comparative wordlists of the Gulf District and adjacent Areas. In: Richard Loving (ed.), ''Comparative Wordlists'' I. 5–116. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. (Rearranged version of Franklin ed. 1973: 541–592) with typographical errors.)

References

Inland Gulf languages Languages of Papua New Guinea {{TNG-lang-stub