Mek languages

Mek
Goliath
Ethnicity: Mek people
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

  • Mek
Glottolog: mekk1240[1]

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Map: The Mek languages of New Guinea
  The Mek languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Mek languages are a well established family of Papuan languages spoken by the Mek peoples. They form a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).

The Mek languages form three dialect chains (Heeschen 1998):

Pronouns are not well attested, but include:

sgpl
1 *na*nun
2 *ka-n
3 *e-r

Mek, then called Goliath, was identified by M. Bromley in 1967. It was placed in TNG by Wurm (1975).

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mek". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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