St Matthias languages

Saint Matthias
Geographic; distribution	Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Meso-Melanesian ? Core Meso-Melanesian Saint Matthias; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Mussau-Emira; Tenis;
Glottolog	stma1240[1]

The St Matthias languages are a pair of Oceanic languages spoken on the St. Matthias Islands.

They are a "residual" group of Oceanic languages.

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "St. Matthias". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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