Manep language

{{Short description|Papuan language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Manep

|altname=Malas

|nativename=Simbukanam

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province

|speakers=650

|date=2003

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Trans–New Guinea?

|fam2=Madang

|fam3=Croisilles

|fam4=Isumrud

|fam5=Dimir–Malas

|iso3=mkr

|glotto=mala1495

|glottorefname=Malas

}}

Manep (Malas, Simbukanam) is a Papuan language of Sumgilbar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.{{cite thesis |type=PhD dissertation |last=Pick |first=Andrew |date=2020 |title=A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/PickDissertation.pdf}}

There are two dialects named after the villages in which they are spoken:{{cite journal |last=Pick |first=Andrew |date=2019 |title=Gildipasi language project: tumbuna stories and tumbuna knowledge |url=https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1234836 |work=Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS, University of London}}

• Malas dialect, spoken in Malas village ({{coord|-4.688875|145.606541|type:city_region:PG|name=Malas}})
• Simbukanam dialect, spoken in Simbukanam village

The Malas and Simbukanam dialects differ slightly from each other.