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Mek
Goliath
EthnicityMek people and Yali people
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
  • Central West New Guinea
    • Momuna–Mek[1]
      • Mek
Glottologmekk1240
Map: The Mek languages of New Guinea
  The Mek languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Mek languages are a well established family of Papuan languages spoken by the Mek people and Yali people. They form a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).

Mek, then called Goliath, was identified by M. Bromley in 1967. It was placed in TNG by Wurm (1975).

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