title: Meramera language
text: # Meramera language
  
  Meramera (Melamela) is an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
  
  ## Name
  
  The name Meramera comes from the closely related Nakanai language in the Bileki dialect. In Meramera, the language is referred to as Melamela, literally meaning 'talk'.
  
  