Blagar language

Blagar
Tereweng
Native to Indonesia
Region Pantar Island
Native speakers
 (12,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
beu – Blagar
twg – Tereweng
Glottolog blag1240  Blagar[2]
tere1277  Tereweng[3]

Blagar is a Papuan language of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. The Tereweng dialect on Teweweng Island of the coast of Pantar is sometimes treated as a distinct language.

Alphabet

The Blagar language has 26 letters (Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz) and two diphthongs (ng and sy).

c, q, sy, x and z are only used in loanwords and foreign names.

References

  1. ↑ Blagar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tereweng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Blagar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tereweng". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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