Merap language

Merap
Merap
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Langap [id], South Malinau, Malinau, North Kalimantan
Ethnicity	Merap
Native speakers	(200 cited 1981)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Greater North Borneo Kayanic Murik–Merap Merap; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	puc
Glottolog	mera1243
ELP	Punan Merap

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.

Phonology

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 *ə) Merap has well over twenty contrasts, including diphthongs, triphthongs, and nasality distinctions.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

References

Notes

^ Merap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Sources

Soriente, Antonia. 2015. Mbraa: A Modang-Bahau language? Presentation given at 13-ICAL, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

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