Meryam Mir (Y3) is a traditional language from the Torres Strait Islands, specifically throughout the Eastern Islands of Erub (Darnley Island), Ugar (Stephen Island) and Mer (Murray Island). The name is constructed with the word mir 'word, language' and the name of a clan living on Mer, the Meryam people: Mer + -yam '(? ) of a clan, of a place'.

Meryam Mir has agglutinative morphology, and extensive system of cross-reference markers on the verb encoding information about the number, person and syntactic nature of the arguments and inflections on nouns to indicate syntactic function. In typological terms it is a double-marking language. It is classified by Wurm (in Piper) as a Papuan language of the Trans-Fly group, in close genetic relationships with the Eastern Trans-Fly family languages Bine, Gidra and Gizra (Piper, 2013:1). The Meryam people are ethnically Melanesian; they won Native Title for Mer in the historical Mabo case of 1992 (Passi and Piper 1994:321).

The spelling 'Meriam Mir' is used in this database in accordance with common practice. See also Kala Lagaw Ya Y1, Kala Kawaw Ya Y2, Kulkalgaw Ya Y4, Kawalgaw Ya Y5 and Torres Strait Creole P2.