Kisar language

Kisar
Loikera
Native to Indonesia
Region Kisar Island, Maluku
Native speakers
20,000 (1995)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kje
Glottolog kisa1266[2]

Kisar is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Kisar Island, northeast of East Timor in Maluku, Indonesia. It shares the island with Oirata, which is a Papuan language.

References

  1. Kisar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kisar". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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