Seluwasan language

Seluwasan
Native toIndonesia
RegionTanimbar Islands
Native speakers
(2,840 cited 1980)[1]
Dialects
  • Makatian
Language codes
ISO 639-3sws
Glottologselu1242

Seluwasan is an Austronesian language of Yamdena, in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It is not close to Selaru. The Makatian dialect is distinct.

References

  1. ↑ Seluwasan at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Grimes, Charles E. & Owen Edwards. 2026. The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Unravelling their prehistory and classification. Berlin: Language Science Press.