Marangis language
| Marangis | |
|---|---|
| Watam | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province, East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 590 (2003)[1] |
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Ramu – Lower Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wax |
| Glottolog |
wata1253[2] |
Marangis a.k.a. Watam is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. Like Bosmun, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family.
References
- ↑ Marangis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Watam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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