St Matthias languages

Saint Matthias
Geographic distribution:	Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Meso-Melanesian ? Core Meso-Melanesian Saint Matthias
Subdivisions:	Mussau-Emira Tenis
Glottolog:	`stma1240`^[1]

The St Matthias languages are a pair of Oceanic languages spoken in the St. Matthias Islands,

Mussau-Emira, Tenis.

They are a "residual" group of Oceanic languages.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "St. Matthias". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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