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] Maʼya has five dialects: three on the island of Waigeo (Laganyan, Wauyai, and Kawe), one on Salawati, and one on Misool.

[citation needed] The varieties spoken on Salawati and Misool are characterized by the occurrence of /s/ and /ʃ/ in some words, where the Waigeo dialects (and other related SHWNG languages) have /t/ and /c/ respectively.

[2] On Waigeo Island, the three dialects are[5]: 6 In Maʼya both tone and stress are lexically distinctive.