Merap language
Merap is an Austronesian language, spoken in the village of in South Malinau district, Malinau Regency, North Kalimantan, Indonesia. Soriente classifies Mbraa as a Kayan–Murik language.
Phonology
Merap phonology has departed significantly from Proto-Malayo Polynesian. Merap stress is word-final, and word shape is sesquisyllabic. The number of vowel contrasts has increased significantly as well. Where Proto-Malayo-Polynesian had four vowels Merap has well over twenty contrasts, including diphthongs, triphthongs, and nasality distinctions.Consonants
- is pronounced as implosive in the offset of final syllables.
- except after is rare, and occurs only in loanwords.
Vowels
- The distinction between and only occurs in final syllables before glottals and.