Ethnicity: Marind people Subdivisions: Boazi
Marind
Yaqay | Geographic
distribution: New Guinea Glottolog: mari1437 | |
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Linguistic classification: Trans–New Guinea
Marind | ||
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.
The pronouns are:
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.
References
Marind languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA