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ISO 639-3 · slzslz
Austronesian family

Ma'ya

bahasa Ma'ya

Ma'ya is a language of the Raja Ampat branch (Austronesian), spoken in Indonesia. Wikidata describes it as “language in Papua”.

6b · Threatened
Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
slz
Glottocode
raja1258
Centre point
-1.22, 130.91
Wikipedia
11 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
—scripts
7levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level

Facts

NameMa'ya · bahasa Ma'ya
Also calledSailolif, Samate, Salawati, Ma'ya language

Vitality

EGIDS 6b Threatened6b

Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Austronesian to Ma'ya

The branches above Ma'ya, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

1039Austronesianfamily944Malayo-Polynesianbranch634Nuclear Malayo-Polynesianbranch579Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch470Eastern Malayo-Polynesianbranch32South Halmahera–West New Guineabranch7Raja AmpatbranchslzMa'yalanguage
where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Ma'ya is spoken
Map: Nyilvoskt · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Indonesia691 languages in the index

Also spoken in Indonesia

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalcmnMandarin ChineseSino-Tibetan · 1.07 bn1 · NationalcmnStandard ChineseSino-Tibetan · 897.1 maraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeindIndonesianAustronesian · 199 m1 · NationaljavJavaneseAustronesian · 84.3 m4 · EducationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mnanSouthern MinSino-Tibetan · 48.3 m6a · VigoroushakHakka ChineseSino-Tibetan · 48.2 m5 · Developing