Sika language

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Sika
Spoken in: Indonesia 
Region: Flores
Total speakers: 180,000
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Central Eastern
   Central
    Timor
     Sika
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: map
ISO/FDIS 639-3: ski

 

The Sika or Sikanese language is a member of the Central Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, and is spoken by around 180,000 people of the Sika ethnic group on Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It is notable for being one of the few languages which contains a non-allophonic labiodental flap.

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