Matbat is a heavily Papuan-influenced Austronesian language spoken in West Papua on the island of Misool Raja Ampat islands. Like neighboring Ma’ya it is one of a handful of Austronesian languages with tone.Matbat has five lexical tones: high falling ˥˩ 41 high ˦ 3 low rising ˩˨ 12 low level ˩ 1 and low falling ˨˩ 21 which in open syllables has a peaking allophone ˩˨˩ 121.
ISO 639-3 code
xmt
family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, Halmahera–Cenderawasih languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
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