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Meyah language information


Meyah
Meyakh
Native toIndonesia
RegionMiyah District, Tambrauw Regency, Southwest Papua
Native speakers
15,000 (2000)[1]
Language family
West Papuan
  • East Bird's Head
    • Mantion–Meyah
      • Meyah
        • Meyah
Language codes
ISO 639-3mej
Glottologmeya1236
Approximate location where Meyah is spoken
Approximate location where Meyah is spoken
Meyah
Approximate location where Meyah is spoken
Approximate location where Meyah is spoken
Meyah
Coordinates: 0°45′00″S 132°41′08″E / 0.75°S 132.6855°E / -0.75; 132.6855

Meyah (Meyakh) is a West Papuan language spoken in Miyah District, Tambrauw Regency of Southwest Papua, Indonesia. The Meyah language is agglutinative and head-marking and has no grammatical cases. It has subject-verb-object word order, which comes from nearby Austronesian languages.[2][3]

  1. ^ Meyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "WALS Online -". wals.info. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
  3. ^ Gravelle, Gilles (1998), "Syntactic constructions and the Meyah lexicon", in Miedema, Jelle; Odé, Cecilia; Dam, Rien A.C. (eds.), Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia - Proceedings of the Conference, Leiden, 13–17 October 1997, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, pp. 555–573, ISBN 978-90-420-0644-7

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