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Marind is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by over ten thousand people. Dialects are Southeast Marind Gawir Holifoersch and Tugeri. Bian Marind (Northwest Marind) AKA Boven-Mbian is divergent enough to not be mutually intelligible and has been assigned a separate ISO code.Marind separates the Trans-Fly – Bulaka River languages which would otherwise occupy a nearly continuous stretch of southern New Guinea.