Tanah Merah language

Not to be confused with Tabla language, which is also called Tanah Merah.

Tanah Merah is a Trans–New Guinea language that forms an independent branch of that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). It is spoken on the Bomberai Peninsula by perhaps a thousand people.

See also

• Mairasi languages

References

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.