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.
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]