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

  1. Southeast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Northwest at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 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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