Kei–Tanimbar languages explained

Kei–Tanimbar
Also Known As:	Southeast Maluku Tanimbar–Bomberai
Region:	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Fam3:	Central–Eastern MP
Glotto:	keit1238
Glottorefname:	Kei–Tanimbar

The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Kei and Tanimbar islands in the southern Maluku Islands, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula.^{[1] [2]} The languages include:

• Kei–Tanimbar
  • Kei–Fordata
    • Kei
    • Fordata
  • Yamdena–North Bomberai
    • Yamdena
    • North Bomberai
      • Onin
      • Sekar
      • Uruangnirin

Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis, and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai:^[3]

• Teor-Kur
• Irarutu–Nabi: Irarutu, Kuri (Nabi)
• Bedoanas–Erokwanas: Arguni, Bedoanas, Erokwanas

Notes and References

1. Mills, Roger F. (1991). Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace, 241-263. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
2. Blust, R. (1993).Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32(2), 241-293.
3. Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.