Meramera language
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Austronesian language
Meramera | |
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Melamela | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mxm |
Glottolog | mera1242 |
Meramera (Melamela) is an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Name
The name Meramera comes from the closely related Nakanai language in the Bileki dialect. In Meramera, the language is referred to as Melamela, literally meaning 'talk'.[2]
References
- ^ Meramera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Goodenough, Ward H. (1997). Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis. Oceanic Linguistics. 36 (2): p. 274.
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