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Kei–Tanimbar languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
Indonesia

Glottolog:
  
keit1238

Linguistic classification:
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Kei–Tanimbar

The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken by a hundred thousand or so people in the Kei and Tanimbar Islands of the southern Malukus, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula. The languages are,

  • Kei–Fordata
  • Kei
  • Fordata
  • Yamdena–Onin
  • Yamdena
  • Onin
  • Onin
  • Sekar
  • Uruangnirin

    • References

    Kei–Tanimbar languages Wikipedia
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