Timor Kisar languages
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The Timor Kisar languages form a language family of the Papuan languages . They are spoken on the Lesser Sunda Islands of Timor , Kisar and Liran . The most widely spoken language in the language family is Bunak, with around 100,000 speakers.
classification
The Timor Kisar languages belong to the Timor Alor Pantar languages and thus to the Trans New Guinea languages .
The Timor Kisar languages include:
- Adabe , 260 speakers on the island of Timor (East Timor)
- Bunak , 100,000 speakers in Central Timor
- Fataluku : 37,779 speakers in East Timor, as well as on Liran and Kisar.
The Oirata spoken in Kisar is viewed either as a Fataluku dialect or as an independent language, depending on its classification.
See also
Web links
- Antoinette Schapper and Rachel Hendery: The history of alignment in the Timor-Alor-Pantar family
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Antoinette Schapper, Juliette Huber & Aone van Engelenhoven: The historical relation of the Papuan languages of Timor and Kisar