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Mari language (Sepik)

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Native to
  
Papua New Guinea

Native speakers
  
80 (2000)

ISO 639-3
  
mbx

Region
  
East Sepik Province

Language family
  
Sepik Bahinemo Mari

Glottolog
  
mari1432

Mari is an endangered Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It is not used by many children. Although Mari is a language known only by approximately eighty people, it is spoken only within the home.

Recordings of scriptures in the tongue of Mari can be found on the Global Recordings Website whose mission it is to spread the word of the Gospel to dying languages.

References

Mari language (Sepik) Wikipedia