Mari language (Sepik)

Mari
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Native speakers
 80 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mbx
Glottolog mari1432[2]

Mari is an endangered Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It is not used by many children. Although Mari is a language known only by approximately eighty people, it is spoken only within the home.

Recordings of scriptures in the tongue of Mari can be found on the Global Recordings Website whose mission it is to spread the word of the Gospel to dying languages.

References

  1. ↑ Mari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mari (East Sepik Province)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

3. Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2016. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.

4. Global Recordings Network. (n.d.). Retrieved February 9, 2017, from http://globalrecordings.net/en/language/3276vteSepik+languagesUpper+SepikWogamusinChenapianWogamusinIwamAmalMay+River+IwamSepik+IwamOtherAbauMiddle+SepikNukumaKwangaKwomaSeimNduAbelamBoikenBuruiGaikundiIatmulKeakKoiwatKwasengenManambuNgalaSengoSos+KundiYeloguOtherYerakaiSepik+HillSanioBikaruHewaNiksekPiameSanioBahinemoBisisBitaraBahinemoKaprimanMariNigiluSumariupWaguWatakatauiAlamblakAlamblakKaningraPapiPapiSuarminOthersWalioPeiTuwariWalioYawiyoRamAwtuwKarawaPouyeTamaAyiKalouMehekPahiPasiYessan-MayoYellow+RiverAkAwunNamiaOtherBiksi-Yetfa

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