Southwest Tanimbar languages
| Southwest Tanimbar | |
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| South Tanimbar, Selaru | |
| Geographic distribution | Indonesia (Maluku Islands) |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | sout2890 |
The Southwest Tanimbar languages[1], also known as the South Tanimbar languages or Selaru languages, are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. They are not closely related, being 56% lexically similar (Ethnologue).
References
- ↑ Grimes, Charles E. & Owen Edwards. 2026. The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Unravelling their prehistory and classification. Berlin: Language Science Press.
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