Ma'ya language

Maʼya
Maʼya
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Raja Ampat Islands
Native speakers	5,000 (2000–2001)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Raja Ampat–South Halmahera Maya–Matbat Maʼya; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; slz – Ma'ya; kgb – Kawe; lcc – Legenyem; wuy – Wauyai
Glottolog	raja1258
ELP	Legenyem
	Maʼya
	Coordinates: 0°52′S 130°39′E / 0.86°S 130.65°E

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]

^ Ma'ya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kawe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Legenyem at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Wauyai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Cite error: The named reference remijsen was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Remijsen, Bert (November 2003), "New Perspectives in Word-Prosodic Typology" (PDF), IIAS Newsletter #32, p. 29, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-11