Meyah language

Meyah
Meyah
Meyakh
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Miyah District, Tambrauw Regency, Southwest Papua
Native speakers	15,000 (2000)
Language family	West Papuan East Bird's Head Mantion–Meyah Meyah Meyah; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mej
Glottolog	meya1236
	Meyah Meyah
	Coordinates: 0.75°S 132.6855°E

Meyah (Meyakh) is a West Papuan language spoken in Miyah District, Tambrauw Regency of West Papua, Indonesia. The Meyah language is agglutinative and head-marking and has no grammatical cases. It has subject-verb-object word order, which comes from nearby Austronesian languages.

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