Adang language

Adang
Hamap
Region Alor Island
Native speakers
8,000 (1995–2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
adn â€“ Adang
hmu â€“ Hamap
klz â€“ Kabola
Glottolog adan1252[2]

The Adang language is spoken on the island of Alor in Indonesia. The language is agglutinative. The Hamap dialect is sometimes treated as a separate language; on the other hand, Kabola, which is sociolinguistically distinct, is sometimes included.

Notes

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

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