West Damar language
Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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West Damar, or North Damar, is an Austronesian language of Damar Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. In spite of rather low cognacy rates with its neighboring languages,[2] it can be classified as part of the Babar languages based on qualitative evidence.[3]
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West Damar | |
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North Damar | |
Damar Batumerah | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Maluku Islands |
Native speakers | (800 cited 1987)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | drn |
Glottolog | west2548 |
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It is only spoken in the village of Batumerah,[4] located on the north-western part of Damar.