MOKILESE (Mokil Atoll, Micronesia; Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian)	For more information about metathesis in this language, click on the following links:
Summary: Free variation in the order of a labial and velar stop is reported in five words in the language.  As Sheldon Harrison (p.c) points out, the process is not otherwise regular.	Examples Conditions Motivation Related processes Comments References

Examples: [apkas]  ~ [akpas] ‘now’ [dipkelkel] ~ [dikpelkel] ‘to stumble’ [kapki:la] ~ [kakpi:la] ‘to drop’ [apwkan] ~ [akpwan] ‘in a little while’ [epwki] ~ [ekpwi] ‘hundred’

Conditions: No information currently available.

Motivation: No information currently available.

Related processes: No information currently available.

Comments: Last updated: 9/13/2000.

References: Harrison, Sheldon.1976. Mokilese Reference Grammar. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.