Marangis language

Marangis
Watam
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province, East Sepik Province
Native speakers
590 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wax
Glottolog wata1253[2]

Marangis AKA 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

  1. Marangis at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Watam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/3/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.