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Meyah

A language of Indonesia (Papua)

ISO 639-3: mej

Population	14,800 (2000).
Region	East Bird’s Head, north coast, west of Manokwari, north of Hattam [had]; scattered.
Language map	Indonesia, Northwestern Papua, reference number 20
Alternate names	Arfak, Mansibaber, Meah, Meax, Mejach, Mejah, Meyach
Dialects	Most similar to Manikion [mnx].
Classification	East Bird’s Head-Sentani, East Bird’s Head, Meax
Language use	Also use Indonesian [ind].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. NT: 1997.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Hunters; agriculturalists. Christian, traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 1990. "Orthography testing in Meah: Using Meah or Indonesian semi-vowel rules."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 1992. "A look at cohesion, mutual obligation, reciprocity and social interaction among the Meah of Irian Jaya."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 1997. "[Language texts from the Arfu/Meax language family]."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 1997. "A look at cohesion, mutual obligation, reciprocity, and social interaction among the Meyah."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 1997. "Syntactic constructions and the Meyah lexicon."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 2000. "Meyah."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 2002. "Morphosyntactic properties of Meyah word classes."

GRAVELLE, Gilles, author. 2004. Meyah: an east Bird’s Head language of Papua, Indonesia.

GRAVELLE, Gilles; GRAVELLE, Gloria, authors. 1991. Meah phonology.

REESINK, Gerard P., author. 1997. "[Language texts from the Moire - Hatam - Meax]."

REESINK, Gerard P., author. 2002. "The eastern Bird's Head languages compared."

Vernacular Publications

Buku mekeni: Rot teinefa mimif mirefa kaju mebi jera metrem ongga eiskijek (Buku pertanian: Cara khusus untuk menanam kacang tanah dan jagung). 1994.

Dongeng-dongeng tentang nenek moyang kita yang berasal dari daerah pantai di Sidei. 1991.

Ingkekesa gonu inggumei. 1996.

Isak ojgunu ojgomuja (Rot penyakit TBC). 1996.

Mahteyi jeska mefmen meimowa. 1991.

Mefesij mar rot Munukwar: Gu mona ongga sis fob onjoros mona deisef (Cerita tenteng keadaan kota Manokwari sejak zaman dahulu sampai dengan hari ini). 1994.

Mimif mik mar jeska buku gij mifmin muga. 1991.

Mimif mufokor gij huruf-huruf jeska mifmin muga. 1991.