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Iatmul is the name of the language of the Iatmul people, spoken around the Sepik River in the East Sepik Povince, northern Papua New Guinea. There are about 10.000 Iatmul speakers traditionally organized in villages, whereas it is estimated that there is a total amount of 46.000 speakers. Most Iatmul speakers, however, do not refer to their language or themselves by the term Iatmul. Instead, they call their language gepmakudi ("village language" from gepma = "village" and kudi "speech"; pronounced as [ŋɡɛpmaɡundi]).

The inhabitants of the villages are trilingual, being fluent with Tok Pisin, good with Iatmul and having some knowledge of English. Tok Pisin also is the first language of the youngest children, despite efforts to revise this trend.

Typological Profile
Iatmul is part of the Ndu language family, which consists of about 6-7 languages in which ndu is the word for 'man'. Iatmul is perhaps he best known Ndu language.

Trivia
Recently, Gerd Jendraschek wrote an extensive grammar of the Iatmul language as a postdoctoral thesis.