East Damar language

East Damar
South Damar
Native to Indonesia
Region Damar Island
Native speakers
unknown (2,800 cited 1990)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dmr
Glottolog east2472[2]

East Damar is one of two Austronesian languages spoken on Damar Island and islets just to the south in Maluku, Indonesia. It is not closely related to the other language of Damar Island, the highly divergent West Damar language.

References

  1. East Damar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "East Damar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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