Mantion–Meax languages

Mantion–Meax
(South)East Bird's Head
Geographic
distribution		 Papua
Linguistic classification West Papuan
  • East Bird's Head
    • Mantion–Meax
Subdivisions
  • Mantion
  • Meax
Glottolog east1459[1]
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East Bird's Head languages (in red)

The Mantion–Meax or East Bird's Head languages form a language family of three languages in the "Bird's Head Peninsula" of western New Guinea, spoken by 20,000 people.

Classification

East Bird's Head stock (3 languages)

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the proto-language (Usher's Southeast Bird's Head) are:

Number
PersonSingularPlural
exclusiveinclusive
1st *da, *di-*meme, *me-*mimi, *mi-
2nd *ba, *bi-*ia, *i-
3rd *e, *-*rua, *ri-

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Bird's Head". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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