Marind languages
| Marind | |
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| Ethnicity: | Marind people |
| Geographic distribution: | New Guinea |
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| Glottolog: | mari1437[1] |
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Map: The Marind languages of New Guinea
The Marind languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited | |
The Marind languages are a well established language family of Papuan languages, spoken by the Marind-anim. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm and Malcolm Ross.
- Marind family
- Boazi branch: Kuni-Boazi, Zimakani
- Marind proper
- Yaqay branch: Warkay-Bipim, Yaqay
The pronouns are:
sg pl 1 *no-ko *ni-ki 2 *ɣo-ko *zo-ko 3 (m) *ɛ-ɣi, *ɛ
(f) *-u-*ya-(?)a
The Marind languages were partially identified by Sidney Herbert Ray and JHP Murray in 1918; the family was filled out by JHMC Boelaars in 1950. It was incorporated into Trans–New Guinea by Stephen Wurm in 1975.
See also
References
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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