Native to Indonesia Native speakers (12,000 cited 1981) | Region Pantar Island | |
Language family Trans–New Guinea
West Trans–New Guinea
Alor–Pantar
Alor
West
Straits
Blagar ISO 639-3 Either:
beu – Blagar
twg – Tereweng Glottolog blag1240 (Blagar)
tere1277 (Tereweng) | ||
Blagar is a Papuan language of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. The Tereweng dialect on Teweweng Island of the coast of Pantar is sometimes treated as a distinct language.
Alphabet
The Blagar language has 26 letters (Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz) and two diphthongs (ng and sy).
c, q, sy, x and z are only used in loanwords and foreign names.
References
Blagar language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA