https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-04-29T07:29:54+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/etna-bay/mairasi?rev=1719337266&do=diff Mairasi Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Mairasi is spoken by 2,500 people (1991) living in 26 villages along the coast and inland between Triton Bay and Wandamen Bay in the Bird's Neck region of Indonesia's West Papua province (Peckham 1982: 94, 1991: 111, 141.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/etna-bay/mer?rev=1719337266&do=diff Mer Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Mer, or Miere, is spoken by 200-400 people (1991) living north of Etna Bay between the headwaters of the Wosimi and Irema rivers in the Bird's Neck region of Indonesia's West Papua province. The Semimi of Kiruru village call them Muri (Peckham 1991: 147, 148-149, 151.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/etna-bay/semimi?rev=1719337266&do=diff Semimi Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation [under construction] Semimi is spoken … Etna Bay …Kiruru and Warifi villages … in the Bird's Neck region of Indonesia's West Papua province (Peckham 1991: 150, 151.) Sources Anceaux (1956, 1958: 119-120) 10 comparative terms for Etna Bay text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/etna-bay/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Etna Bay Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation The Etna Bay family, also known as the Mairasi family, is comprised of three closely related languages spoken in the Bird's Neck region of Indonesia's West Papua province. Subclassification The internal classification of Etna Bay is as follows: