Austronesian language
Meramera (Melamela) is an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Name
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
- ^ Meramera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Goodenough, Ward H. (1997). Proto-Kimbe: A New Analysis. Oceanic Linguistics. 36 (2): p. 274.
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