Melpa (also written Medlpa) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands Province Papua New Guinea.Melpa has a voiceless velar lateral fricative written double-barred el (Ⱡ ⱡ). It is notable for its binary counting system.
ISO 639-3 code
med
family
Trans–New Guinea languages, Chimbu–Wahgi languages
spoken in
Papua New Guinea, Western Highlands Province, Mount Hagen District
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