Teor-Kur language

Teor-Kur
Native toIndonesia
RegionMaluku Islands
Native speakers
(4,500 cited 1986–2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Teor (Tio’or)
  • Kur
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
kuv – Kur
tev – Teor
Glottologteor1239

Teor and Kur are two Austronesian language varieties of the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch spoken near Kei Island, Indonesia. They are reportedly mutually intelligible.

References

  1. ↑ Kur at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Teor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  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.