The Marangis people live in three different villages located along the coast between the Ramu and Sepik rivers. There are about 800 Marangis speakers.

These people live off their gardens and what the ocean provides. Their main cash crops are cocoa and copra but like the other groups in the area they have taken to planting vanilla recently as well. The Catholics have the only mission work in the area, with a small church located in the village of Mangarong. Mangarong is also the location of the community school and medical clinic.

The Marangis people are eager to participate in a translation work. Alphabet and writers' workshops were held in Marangis in July 2003. The response was very positive as the people experienced being able to read their own language for the first time. In 2007 we held a ladies writers workshop with 26 women in attendance. Over the two week course they learned to read and write in their own language and compiled two books of stories that they had written. While that was going on, 13 men were learning translation principles by working on a translation of the book of Jonah. That book will be checked revised and prepared for publication in 2008.