Meyah (Meax) is a

West Papuan language The West Papuan languages are a proposed language family of about two dozen non-Austronesian languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai Peninsula) of far western New Guinea, the island of Halmahera and its vicinity, spoken by ab ...

spoken in Miyah District,

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of West Papua,

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. The Meyah language is

agglutinative In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative lang ...

and head-marking and has no

grammatical cases A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nomin ...

. It has subject-object-verb word order, which comes from nearby Austronesian languages.

Distribution

Within

, ethnic Meyah people reside in Senopi District, Miyah District, Fef District, and Syujak District.

Phonology

Meax has 5 vowels and 13 consonants.

Pitch-accent

Like many other

Papuan languages The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and