Punan Merap language
Punan Merap (Mbraa) is a purported minor Austronesian language of Borneo in Indonesia.
| Punan Merap | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Borneo |
| Ethnicity | Punan |
Native speakers | (200 cited 1981)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | puc |
| Glottolog | (insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)puna1274 |
| ELP | Punan Merap[2] |
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 schwa) Merap has well over twenty contrasts, including diphthongs, triphthongs, and nasality distinctions. [3]
References
- Notes
- Punan Merap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Punan Merap.
- 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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