Salawati language explained

Salawati
Also Known As:Maden
States:Indonesia
Region:Salawati Island
Speakers:600
Date:2001
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Fam4:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Fam5:South Halmahera–West New Guinea
Fam6:Halmahera Sea
Iso3:xmx
Glotto:made1253
Glottorefname:Salawati

Salawati is an Austronesian language spoken on the west of Salawati Island, in the Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesian New Guinea.

Dialects

The dialects of Salawati are as follows:[1]

Notes and References

  1. Kamholz, David (2014). Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and change in South Halmahera–West New Guinea. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zg8b1vd
  2. https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-001E-ACE7-1 LAISEANG: Butleh