Punan Merap language

Punan Merap
Punan Merap
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Borneo
Ethnicity	Punan
Native speakers	(200 cited 1981)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Greater North Borneo Kayanic Punan Merap; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	puc
Glottolog	(insufficiently attested or not a distinct language); puna1274
ELP	Punan Merap

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. ^[2]

References

Notes

^ Punan 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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[e18-1] Punan Merap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Smith, Alexander. "Merap Historical Phonology" (PDF).

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