Eipo language

Eipo
Lik
Native toIndonesia
RegionEipo River area in Eipumek District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua
EthnicityEipo people
Native speakers
(3,000 cited 1987)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3eip
Glottologeipo1242

Eipo (Eipomek), or Lik, is a Mek language of the eastern highlands of Eipumek District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua. It spoken by the Eipo people who live along the Eipo River. A large percentage of its vocabulary is shared with Una and Tanime, and they form one dialect area.[2]

  1. ^ Eipo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Heeschen 1998, p. 18.