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Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of
Austronesian languages spoken on the
Kei and
Tanimbar islands in the southern
Maluku Islands , and on the north side of the
Bomberai Peninsula .
[1]
[2] The languages include:
Kei–Tanimbar
Kei–Fordata
Yamdena–North Bomberai
Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously
incertae sedis , and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai :
[3]
References
^ Mills, Roger F. (1991). Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace, 241-263. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
^ Blust, R. (1993).
Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32 (2), 241-293.
^ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics .
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status