The Mantion-Meax languages, also called the Mantion-Meyah or East Bird's Head languages, are a family of three languages spoken by about 20,000 people on the Bird's Head Peninsula of Indonesia's Papua province. The family divides into the Mantion and Meyah subfamilies and is tentatively classified within the broader West Papuan languages.
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RegionBird's Head Peninsula, western New Guinea (Papua province, Indonesia) 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusMalcolm Ross reconstructed proto-forms for the pronoun set of the proto-language, termed Southeast Bird's Head by Usher; a fuller reconstruction is not published. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Mantion-Meax Languages
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a language family of three languages in the "Bird's Head Peninsula" of western New Guinea, spoken by all together 20,000 people.
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a language family of three languages in the "Bird's Head Peninsula" of western New Guinea, spoken by all together 20,000 people.
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The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the proto-language (Usher's Southeast Bird's Head) are:
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