Marind is a Papuan language spoken in Malind District, Merauke Regency, Indonesia by over ten thousand people.
[5] Words describing properties, akin to adjectives, modify nouns in a compound construction rather than forming an adjectival phrase.
[14] This complex along with markers on the verb stem itself also marks various tense, aspect, and mood categories,[15] illocution,[16] valency changing devices,[17] pluractionality,[18] and some adverbial categories, such as repetition or return to a previous state, akin to English "again",[19] and a marker to indicate that a verb of position or motion takes place on top of a surface other than the ground.
[21] The prefixal complex also displays a marker for the role of a constituent placed in the immediately preverbal focus slot, a system which works similarly to Austronesian alignment.
[24] Verbs are negated by a preverbal marker "mbya", which within noun phrases has the function of marking collectivity, "all".
[30] The direct speech construction is extended to cover functions beyond just quoting, also being used to express desire, thoughts, and purpose.