Melpa language
Melpa is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Melpa has a pandanus language used during karuka harvest.
Melpa has a voiceless velar lateral fricative, written as a double-barred el. It is notable for its binary counting system.Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
Temboka, a dialect of Melpa, is the native language of the Ganiga tribe, who featured prominently in the Highlands Trilogy of documentaries by Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly.
The documentary Ongka's Big Moka also has Melpa dialogue.
