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Meramera language

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Meramera
Melamela
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
(2,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mxm
Glottologmera1242

Meramera (Melamela) is an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

Name

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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'.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Meramera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Goodenough, Ward H. (1997). Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis. Oceanic Linguistics. 36 (2): p. 274.