Meramera language explained

Meramera
Nativename:Melamela
States:Papua New Guinea
Speakers:2,000
Date:1995
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Oceanic
Fam4:Western
Fam5:Meso-Melanesian
Fam6:Willaumez
Iso3:mxm
Glotto:mera1242
Glottorefname:Meramera

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'.[1]

Notes and References

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