Teun language explained

Teun
States:	Indonesia
Region:	Seram Island
Ethnicity:	1,200 (1990)
Extinct:	?
Ref:	e17
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Central–Eastern
Fam4:	Timoric
Fam5:	Southwest Maluku
Fam6:	Teun–Nila–Serua
Iso3:	tve
Glotto:	teun1241

Teun (also rendered Teʼun^[1]) is an Austronesian language originally spoken on Teun Island (Mesa, Yafila and Wotludan villages) and Nila Island (Bumei village) in Maluku, Indonesia. Speakers were relocated to Seram due to volcanic activity on Teun.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=cxYGQfiD_1oC&pg=PT24528 Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
2. Book: Aone van Engelenhoven . 2003 . Language endangerment in Indonesia: The incipient obsolescence and acute death of Teun, Nila and Serua (Central and Southwest Maluku) . Mark Janse . Sjimen Tol . Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive Approaches . 49–80 . Amsterdam . John Benjamins.
3. Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a Better Understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku." Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Winter, 1993), pp. 389–441. University of Hawaiʻi.