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| Kei–Tanimbar | |
|---|---|
| Southeast Maluku Tanimbar–Bomberai | |
| Geographic distribution | Indonesia (Maluku Islands) |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Proto-language | Proto-Kei–Tanimbar |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | keit1238 |
The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Kei and Tanimbar islands in the southern Maluku Islands, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula.[1][2] The languages include:
Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis, and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai:[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Mills, Roger F. (1991). Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace, 241-263. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
- ↑ Blust, R. (1993). Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32(2), 241-293.
- ↑ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.