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Mairasi
Etna Bay
Geographic
distribution
Etna Bay, Kaimana Regency, West Papua
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Glottologmair1253
Distribution of the Mairasi languages

The Mairasi languages, also known as Etna Bay[1] are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classifications of Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal. They are named after Etna Bay, located in the southeastern corner of West Papua province, in Indonesia.

  1. ^ Usher, Timothy. 2020. Etna Bay. New Guinea World.

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