Mark Donohue (born 2 June 1967 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom) is a British-Australian linguist. He deals with the description of Austronesian, Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan languages.

He obtained a B.A. in linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1996, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled The Tukang Besi language of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.Donohue_2017_CV.pdf. From 2009 to 2017, he was an associate professor at the Australian National University. In 2017, he was employed by the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.

Publications Bajau: A symmetrical Austronesian language (1996) Tone systems in New Guinea (1997) Typology and linguistic areas (2004) The Papuan language of Tambora (2007) A grammar of Tukang Besi (2011)

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