A fact from Sepik appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the longest river on the island of New Guinea, the Sepik(pictured), was named the Kaiserin Augusta by German explorers in 1884, after the German Empress of the day?
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I'd like to propose an addition to the IPA transcription of the page. Only issue is it's a bit anecdotal. I'm a Papuan linguistics researcher and have spoken with a few other older specialists who have all seemed to pronounce "Sepik" with a long "e", i.e. [siːpɪk] or a long "a" (as in [seɪpɪk]). Though neither pronunciation, except the one on the Wiki page, is at present supported by a citation, it might be worth amending either way.
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