Lepki language

{{Short description|Pauwasi language spoken in Western New Guinea}}

{{use dmy dates |date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Lepki

|nativename=

|states=Western New Guinea

|region=Highland Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency - Teiraplu, Yetfa, and Aboy districts, west of the Sobger River

|ethnicity = Lepki

|speakers=530

|date=1991

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Pauwasi

|fam2=South Pauwasi

|fam3=Yetfa – South Pauwasi

|fam4=Lepki–Murkim

|iso3=lpe

|glotto=lepk1238

|glottorefname=Lepki

}}

Lepki is a Papuan language spoken in Western New Guinea, near its relatives Murkim and Kembra in Highland Papua. Only a few hundred words have been recorded, in hastily collected word lists.

Øystein Lund Andersen (2007) has unpublished ethnography on the Lepki{{Cite web|url=https://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/40210|title = Glottolog 4.4 - Andersen, Øystein Lund 2007}} that includes a word list.{{cite web |url=http://papuaweb.org/dlib/lap/andersen/lepki.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127093324/http://papuaweb.org/dlib/lap/andersen/lepki.pdf |archive-date=2018-01-27 |title=The Lepki people of Sogber River, New Guinea |first=Øystein Lund |last=Andersen |date=July 2007 |publisher=Cenderawasih University}}