Misool-Salawati Ma'ya
bahasa Ma'ya
Misool-Salawati Ma'ya is an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Maʼya is an Austronesian language of the Raja Ampat islands in Southwest Papua, Indonesia. It is part of the South Halmahera–West New Guinea (SHWNG) subgroup and is spoken by about 6,000 people in coastal villages on the islands of Batanta, Misool, Salawati, and Waigeo, on the boundary between Austronesian and Papuan languages.
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Words in Misool-Salawati Ma'ya
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | met* | |
| name | nahan* | |
| eye | ta* | |
| ear | tena* | |
| nose | henyu* | |
| tooth | weli* | |
| tongue | telebey* | |
| hand | emelih* | |
| blood | l3moh* | |
| bone | abom* | |
| skin | eney* | |
| knee | epyabu* | |
| breast | suh* | |
| water | waya | |
| fire | lap* | |
| sun | yahan* | |
| star | tun* | |
| stone | epat* | |
| mountain | deTal* | |
| tree | batan* | |
| leaf | emoy* | |
| night | melim* | |
| dog | hewu* | |
| fish | kemon* | |
| louse | wut* | |
| one | 3tem* | |
| two | lu* | |
| I | ine* | |
| you | aw* | |
| we | atne* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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