Wemale language

Wemale
Native to Indonesia
Region Maluku
Ethnicity Wemale people
Native speakers
6000 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 weo
Glottolog nort2864[2]

Wemale is an Austronesian language spoken on western Seram Island in Indonesia.

The Wemale language is divided in a northern and a southern form, having variants known as Horale, Kasieh, Uwenpantai, Honitetu and Kawe.[3][4] The northern form is spoken by about 5,000 people and the Southern Wemale is spoken by about 3,700 people.[5]

See also

References

  1. Wemale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "North Wemale". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Wemale". Ethnologue.com. 1999-02-19. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  4. http://web.archive.org/web/20150611020640/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tlw. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. List of languages in Indonesia
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