| Raja Ampat | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Yapen Island, New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | Austronesian
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The Raja Ampat languages are the branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on the Raja Ampat Islands of the western tip of New Guinea.
The languages are As, Biga, Gebe (Minyaifuin), Kawe, Legenyem, Ma'ya, Waigeo, Wauyai, Matbat (Biga), Maden.
A 2008 analysis of three Raja Ampat languages in the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] found that they were certainly related, with Matbat and As closer to each other than to Gebe, and that their nearest relatives were the South Halmahera languages.