Meramera language

Meramera
Meramera
Melamela
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1995)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Willaumez Meramera; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mxm
Glottolog	mera1242

Meramera (Melamela) is an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

Name

The name Meramera comes from the closely related Nakanai language in the Bileki dialect. In Meramera, the language is referred to as Melamela, literally meaning 'talk'.^[2]

References

^ Meramera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Goodenough, Ward H. (1997). Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis. Oceanic Linguistics. 36 (2): p. 274.

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[e18-1] Meramera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Goodenough, Ward H. (1997). Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis. Oceanic Linguistics. 36 (2): p. 274.

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Meramera
Melamela
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1995)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian Willaumez Meramera
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mxm`
Glottolog	`mera1242`