Alternate Names: Bukiyúp, Mountain Arapesh
Dialects: Bukiyip (Mountain Arapesh), Coastal Arapesh. Lexical similarity: 60% with Mufian ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 16,200 (2003 SIL).
Language Use: Shifting to Tok Pisin [tpi]. Many children and adults unwilling to speak the language.
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 15%–25%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Grammar. NT: 1994–2003.
Typology: SVO; 14 noun classes; noun phrase concordance.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea