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 | (10,000 cited 1987–2002)[1] |
| 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) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nuclear Marind". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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