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{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}
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|name=Kei–Tanimbar
|altname = Southeast Maluku<br>Tanimbar–Bomberai
|region=[[Indonesia]]
|region=[[Indonesia]] ([[Maluku Islands]])
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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 Island|Kei]] and [[Tanimbar Islands]] of the southern [[Maluku Islands|Malukus]]. The languages are
The '''Kei–Tanimbar languages''' are a small group of [[Austronesian languages]] spoken on the [[Kei Islands|Kei]] and [[Tanimbar Islands|Tanimbar]] islands in the southern [[Maluku Islands]], and on the north side of the [[Bomberai Peninsula]].<ref>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.</ref><ref>Blust, R. (1993).
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3623195 Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.] ''Oceanic Linguistics, 32''(2), 241-293.</ref> The languages include:
*[[Yamdena language|Yamdena]]

*Kei–Fordata
{{tree list}}
**[[Kei language|Kei]]
*'''Kei–Tanimbar'''
**[[Fordata language|Fordata]]
**Kei–Fordata
***[[Kei language|Kei]]
***[[Fordata language|Fordata]]
**Yamdena–North Bomberai
***[[Yamdena language|Yamdena]]
***North Bomberai
****[[Onin language|Onin]]
****[[Sekar language|Sekar]]
****[[Uruangnirin language|Uruangnirin]]
{{tree list/end}}

Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously ''[[incertae sedis]]'', and rename the family ''Tanimbar–Bomberai'':<ref>Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) ''Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33B3FXQmvok Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics].</ref>

*[[Teor-Kur language|Teor-Kur]]
*Irarutu–Nabi: [[Irarutu language|Irarutu]], [[Kuri language (Austronesian)|Kuri]] (Nabi)
*Bedoanas–Erokwanas: [[Arguni language|Arguni]], [[Bedoanas language|Bedoanas]], [[Erokwanas language|Erokwanas]]

==References==
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{{Central Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Austronesian languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}


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Latest revision as of 14:10, 15 December 2024

Kei–Tanimbar
Southeast Maluku
Tanimbar–Bomberai
Geographic
distribution
Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Language codes
Glottologkeit1238

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:

Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis, and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai:[3]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Blust, R. (1993). Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32(2), 241-293.
  3. ^ 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.