Mai Brat language
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| Maybrat | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua |
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Native speakers
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unknown (25,000 cited 1987)[2] |
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West Papuan ?
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| Dialects |
Ayamaru
Karon Dori
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: ayz – Mai Brat (= Ajamaru) kgw – Karon Dori[1] |
| Glottolog | maib1239[3] |
The Mai Brat (Maybrat) is a Papuan language spoken by the Ayamaru and Karon Dori peoples of the Maybrat Regency on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. Ayamaru dialect is spoken in the many villages around the Ayamaru Lakes. It is only distantly related to other languages, sharing 10% of its vocabulary with its nearest neighbors (apart from the very similar Karon Dori), though it may be part of the West Papuan family.
Variant spellings of the language include Majbrat, Mey Brat, and Brat. Other names include Atinjo and Maite.
Mai Brat is fairly isolating, with subject–verb–object and noun–adjective word order.
References
- ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
- ↑ Mai Brat (= Ajamaru) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- "Maybrat" in World Atlas of Language Structures
- Philomena Hedwig Dol. A grammar of Maybrat: a language of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2007. ISBN 978-0-85883-573-3
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