Bati language (Indonesia) explained

Bati
States:	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Region:	Seram Island
Speakers:	3,500
Date:	1989
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Central–Eastern
Fam4:	Central Maluku ?
Fam5:	East Central Maluku
Fam6:	Seran Laut
Iso3:	bvt
Glotto:	bati1253
Glottorefname:	Bati (Indonesia)

Bati is an Austronesian language of eastern Seram Island, Indonesia. It is closely related to Geser and Watubela.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Loski, Russell A. and Gail M. Loski (1989). "The languages indigenous to Eastern Seram and adjacent islands". In Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), Maluku (Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 6), 103-142. Ambon: Pattimura University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.