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Merap (Mbraa) is an Austronesian language of Borneo in Indonesia. Soriente (2015) classifies Mbraa (also known as Merap) as a Kayan–Murik (Modang-Bahau) language.
Merap | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Borneo |
Ethnicity | Merap |
Native speakers | (200 cited 1981)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | puc |
Glottolog | mera1243 |
ELP | Punan Merap |
Merap phonology has departed significantly from Proto-Malayo Polynesian. Merap stress is word-final, and word shape is sesquisyllabic (a minor penultimate syllable followed by a stressed full ultima). The number of vowel contrasts has increased significantly as well. Where Proto-Malayo-Polynesian had four vowels (*i, *u, *a, and schwa) Merap has well over twenty contrasts, including diphthongs, triphthongs, and nasality distinctions. [2]
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