Magori language

Magori
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionCentral Province
Native speakers
100 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3zgr
Glottologmago1248
ELPMagori
Magori is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Magori is a nearly extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea that has been strongly restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, 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.[2] Magi in turn borrowed large numbers of Austronesian words, either from Magori or its extinct Oumic relatives.

  1. ^ Magori at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ William Foley, 1986, The Papuan Languages of New Guinea, p. 283