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Maʼya language
Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Maya languages or Maiya language.
Maʼya is an Austronesian language of the Raja Ampat islands in Southwest Papua, Indonesia. It is part of the South Halmahera–West New Guinea (SHWNG) subgroup and is spoken by about 6,000 people in coastal villages on the islands Misool, Salawati, and Waigeo,[2] on the boundary between Austronesian and Papuan languages.[3]