Punan Merap language

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[2]

Punan Merap (Mbraa) is a purported minor 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 schwa) Merap has well over twenty contrasts, including diphthongs, triphthongs, and nasality distinctions. [3]

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Punan Merap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Punan Merap". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ 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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