Magori language

Magori
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Central Province
Native speakers	(100 cited 2000) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Central Oumic Magoric Magori
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zgr
Glottolog	mago1248
ELP	Magori
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] Mailu (also called Magi) in turn borrowed large numbers of Austronesian words, either from Magori or its extinct Oumic relatives.

See also

• Maisin language, a similar case

References

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