Magori is a nearly extinct
Austronesian language of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
that has been strongly restructured through contact with neighboring
Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
, perhaps
Mailu, which the Magori people speak fluently today. The restructuring was so extensive that Magori's family was long in doubt; it was finally established by Dutton in 1976.
[William Foley, 1986, ''The Papuan Languages of New Guinea'', p. 283] Magi in turn borrowed large numbers of Austronesian words, either from Magori or its extinct Oumic relatives.
See also
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Maisin language
Maisin (or Maisan) is a language of Papua New Guinea with both Austronesian and Papuan features. The Austronesian elements are those of the Nuclear Papuan Tip languages. The Papuan element is Binanderean or Dagan. It is spoken by the Maisin p ...
, a similar case
References
Central Papuan Tip languages
Languages of Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
Endangered Austronesian languages
Mixed languages
Vulnerable languages
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