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Mari language (Madang Province)

Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6760941 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mari, or Hop, is a minor Austronesian language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the four villages of Bumbu (5.985151°S 145.902057°E / -5.985151; 145.902057 (Bumbu)), Bubirumpun (5.979754°S 145.898206°E / -5.979754; 145.898206 (Bopirumpun)), Musuam (5.884498°S 145.739611°E / -5.884498; 145.739611 (Musuam)), and Sangkiang (5.921326°S 145.837215°E / -5.921326; 145.837215 (Sankaing)) in Usino Rural LLG of the Ramu valley.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mari language (Madang Province)” as austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mari, language and Madang can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6760941. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mari language (Madang Province)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.