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| Meyah | |
|---|---|
| Meyakh | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | North Manokwari District, Manokwari Regency, West Papua |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2000)[1] |
West Papuan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mej |
| Glottolog | meya1236 |
  Meyah  Meyah | |
| Coordinates: 0°46′01″S 133°52′52″E / 0.767°S 133.881°E | |
Meyah (Meyakh) is a West Papuan language spoken in North Manokwari District, Manokwari Regency, West 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]
- ^ Meyah at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Odé 2002". wals.info. Retrieved 18 August 2018.[failed verification]
- ^ Gravelle, Gilles (1998). "Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia". In Miedema, Jelle; Odé, Cecilia; Dam, Rien A.C. (eds.). Proceedings of the Conference, Leiden, 13–17 October 1997. Rodopi. pp. 555–573. ISBN 978-90-420-0644-7.