Kei–Tanimbar languages

Kei–Tanimbar
Southeast Maluku
Geographic
distribution:
Indonesia
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Glottolog: keit1238[1]

The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken by a hundred thousand or so people in the Kei and Tanimbar Islands of the southern Malukus, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula. The languages are,

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kei–Tanimbar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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