Native speakers (800 cited 1987) Glottolog west2548 | ISO 639-3 drn | |
Language family AustronesianMalayo-Polynesian (MP)Nuclear MP(Central–Eastern)Timor–BabarBabarWest Damar | ||
West Damar, or North Damar, is an Austronesian language of Damar Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It is highly divergent, retaining distinctions which have been lost in all other languages of eastern Indonesia, and is perhaps an isolate within the Malayo-Polynesian family.
References
West Damar language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA