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{{Short description|Language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Merap
|region=[[Borneo]]
|states=[[Indonesia]]
|ethnicity=Merap
|speakers=200
|date=1981
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]
|fam3=[[Greater North Borneo languages|Greater North Borneo]] 
|fam4=[[Kayan–Murik languages|Kayanic]]
|fam5=Murik–Merap
|iso3=puc
|glotto2=mera1243
|glottorefname2=Merap
}}

'''Merap''' (Mbraa) is an [[Austronesian language]] of [[Borneo]] in Indonesia. Soriente (2015) classifies Mbraa (also known as Merap) as a [[Kayan–Murik languages|Kayan–Murik]] (Modang-Bahau) language.

== Phonology ==
Merap phonology has departed significantly from Proto-Malayo Polynesian. Merap stress is word-final, and word shape is sesquisyllabic (a minor penultimate syllable followed by a stressed full ultima). The number of vowel contrasts has increased significantly as well. Where Proto-Malayo-Polynesian had four vowels (*i, *u, *a, and schwa) Merap has well over twenty contrasts, including diphthongs, triphthongs, and nasality distinctions. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/fb0c2e_5daba1d9ed594ad8b007a4036d1b4052.pdf|title=Merap Historical Phonology|last=Smith|first=Alexander}}</ref>

==References==
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*Soriente, Antonia. 2015. ''Mbraa: A Modang-Bahau language?'' Presentation given at 13-ICAL, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

{{Bornean languages}}
{{Austronesian languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}

[[Category:Kayan–Murik languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Indonesia]]
[[Category:Endangered Austronesian languages]]

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