Meriam Mir

E365531

Indigenous Australian language Papuan language natural language

Meriam Mir is an Indigenous language of the eastern Torres Strait, spoken primarily by the Meriam people of islands such as Mer (Murray Island) in northern Australia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Meriam Mir canonical	5
Meryam Mir	4

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous Australian language ⓘ Papuan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ
country	Australia ⓘ
ethnicGroupAssociated	Meriam people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Meriam ⓘ Meriam Mir ⓘ surface form: Meryam Mir Miriam ⓘ Miriam Mir ⓘ
hasDomain	cultural heritage of the Meriam people ⓘ
hasGlottocode	meri1243 ⓘ
hasISO6393Code	ulk ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom	English ⓘ Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ Tok Pisin ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType	agglutinative language ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate	a few hundred speakers ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ prenasalised stops ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEfforts	community-driven language maintenance activities ⓘ
hasWordOrder	SOV-dominant word order ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
isDistinctFrom	Kala Lagaw Ya ⓘ
isOneOf	Torres Strait Island languages ⓘ
isRecognizedBy	Australian linguists as a Papuan outlier in Australia ⓘ
isSpokenNear	Papua New Guinea ⓘ
isSpokenOnIsland	Dauan ⓘ Mer ⓘ Waier ⓘ
isSubjectOf	linguistic documentation projects ⓘ
isTaughtIn	some community-based language programs ⓘ
isUsedFor	daily communication among some Meriam elders ⓘ
languageFamily	Eastern Trans-Fly languages ⓘ Trans-Fly languages ⓘ
languageStatus	endangered language ⓘ
region	Torres Strait ⓘ
spokenBy	Meriam people ⓘ
spokenIn	Australia ⓘ Dauan Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Mer ⓘ Murray Island ⓘ Queensland ⓘ Waier Island ⓘ eastern Torres Strait ⓘ
usedIn	ceremonial contexts ⓘ oral narratives ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ

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# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Meriam Mir
Description of subject: Meriam Mir is an Indigenous language of the eastern Torres Strait, spoken primarily by the Meriam people of islands such as Mer (Murray Island) in northern Australia.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Torres Strait Islanders → hasLanguage → Meriam Mir ⓘ

Torres Strait Islands → hasLocalLanguage → Meriam Mir ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meryam Mir

Torres Strait → languageRegionOf → Meriam Mir ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meryam Mir

Kala Lagaw Ya → hasContactWithLanguage → Meriam Mir ⓘ

Meriam Mir → hasAlternativeName → Meriam Mir ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meryam Mir

Brokan → hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom → Meriam Mir ⓘ

Torres Strait Creole → hasSubstrateLanguage → Meriam Mir ⓘ

Zenadh Kes → hasPrimaryLanguages → Meriam Mir ⓘ

this entity surface form: Meryam Mir

Zenadh Kes people → hasLanguage → Meriam Mir ⓘ