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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Phonology
editMerap 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]
References
edit- Notes
- ^ Merap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Smith, Alexander. "Merap Historical Phonology" (PDF).
- Sources
- Soriente, Antonia. 2015. Mbraa: A Modang-Bahau language? Presentation given at 13-ICAL, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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