Mantion–Meax languages
The Mantion–Meax or East Bird's Head languages are a language family of three languages in the "Bird's Head Peninsula" of western New Guinea, spoken altogether by 20,000 people.Classification
East Bird's Head stock
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the proto-language are:Basic vocabulary
Lexical similarities among East Bird's Head languages listed in Holton & Klamer :
Additional East Bird's Head basic vocabulary quoted by Holton & Klamer from Miedema & Reesink and, showing diverse non-cognate vocabulary across different branches: