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: