Wemale language
| Wemale | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Maluku |
| Ethnicity | Wemale people |
Native speakers | 6000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
weo |
| Glottolog |
nort2864[2] |
Wemale is an Austronesian language spoken on western Seram Island in Indonesia.
The Wemale language is divided in a northern and a southern form, having variants known as Horale, Kasieh, Uwenpantai, Honitetu and Kawe.[3][4] The northern form is spoken by about 5,000 people and the Southern Wemale is spoken by about 3,700 people.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Wemale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "North Wemale". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "Wemale". Ethnologue.com. 1999-02-19. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
- ↑
- ↑ List of languages in Indonesia
- Consolidation of Wemale at SIL
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