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Mek
Goliath
Ethnicity
Mek people and Yali people
Geographic distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classification
Trans–New Guinea
Central West New Guinea
Momuna–Mek[1]
Mek
Glottolog
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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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