Meyah language
West Papuan language of Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Meyah | |
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Meyakh | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Miyah District, Tambrauw Regency, Southwest Papua |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2000)[1] |
West Papuan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mej |
Glottolog | meya1236 |
Coordinates: 0.75°S 132.6855°E / -0.75; 132.6855 |
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