Ekari language

Ekari (also Ekagi, Kapauku, Mee) is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by about 100,000 people in the Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of Central Papua, including the villages of Enarotali, Mapia and Moanemani.

This makes it the second-most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea after Western Dani.

Doble describes both /k/ and /ɡᶫ/ as being labialized [kʷ, ɡᶫʷ] after the back vowels /o, u/ (i.e., okei 'they', euga 'more'), with /g/ having 'varying' degrees of the lateral.

Words of the following shapes may have a contrastive high tone on the final syllable: CVCV, CVCVV.

Materials on Ekari are included in the open access Arthur Capell collections held by Paradisec:

A view of Moanemani, Papua