West Damar language
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| West Damar | |
|---|---|
| North Damar | |
| Damar Batumerah | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Maluku Islands |
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Native speakers
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unknown (800 cited 1987)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | drn |
| Glottolog | west2548[2] |
West Damar, or North Damar, is an Austronesian language of Damar Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It is highly divergent, retaining distinctions which have been lost in all other languages of eastern Indonesia, and is perhaps an isolate within the Malayo-Polynesian family.
See also
References
- ↑ West Damar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- Michael Chlenov & Svetlana Chlenova, 2006. "West Damar language or Damar-Batumerah, an isolate in South-Eastern Indonesia." Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 17–20 January 2006, Palawan, Philippines.[1]
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