Marind language

This article is about the specific language. For the language family, see Marind languages.

Marind
Region	Papua New Guinea
Ethnicity	Marind
Native speakers	unknown (10,000 cited 1987–2002)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Marind languages Marind
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `mrz` – Southeast `bpv` – Northwest
Glottolog	`nucl1621`^[2]

Marind is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by over ten thousand people. Dialects are Southeast Marind, Gawir, Holifoersch, and Tugeri. Bian Marind (Northwest Marind), AKA Boven-Mbian, is divergent enough to not be mutually intelligible, and has been assigned a separate ISO code.

Marind separates the Trans-Fly – Bulaka River languages, which would otherwise occupy a nearly continuous stretch of southern New Guinea.

References

↑ Southeast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Northwest at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nuclear Marind". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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