Mek languages

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Mek
Goliath
Ethnicity	Mek people and Yali people
Geographic distribution	Yahukimo and Pegunungan Bintang, Highland Papua
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Central West New Guinea Momuna–Mek[1] Mek
Language codes
Glottolog	mekk1240
Map: The Mek languages of New Guinea   The Mek languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Mek languages are a well established family of Papuan languages spoken by the Mek people and Yali people. They form a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).

Mek, then called Goliath, was identified by M. Bromley in 1967. It was placed in TNG by Wurm (1975).