Bukiyip ( Bukiyip, Bukiyúp, Mountain Arapesh ) is a Papuan language that belongs to the Arapech group of the Torricelli language family, which is spoken in the Torricelli mountains in the west of Yangoru County, East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea.
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| Country | Papua New Guinea |
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| Regions | East Sepik |
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| Total number of speakers | 16,200 (2003) |
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- Languages Torricelli
- Arapesh languages
- Bukhyip
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| Writing | latin |
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| ISO 639-1 | - |
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| ISO 639-2 | - |
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| ISO 639-3 | ape |
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Bukiyip has mountain arapesh (bukiyip) and coastal arapech dialects. Most of the population switched to talk-writing , children and elderly people do not want to speak the language.