| Dobel | |
|---|---|
| Kobro’or | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Aru Islands |
Native speakers | 5,700 (2011)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kvo |
| Glottolog | dobe1238 |
Dobel, or Kobro’or, is one of the Aru languages,2 spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands Regency, Indonesia. It is close to Kola.
Dobel New Testament
In October 2025, the New Testament in Dobel was launched. It was the culmination of 40 years of work by Scots, Jock and Katy Hughes, who had worked on it since 1985 in partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators.3
References
References
- Dobel at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Dobel". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "What a day!". Wycliffe Bible Translators. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
Further reading
Further reading
- Hughes, Jock (2000). "The morphology of Dobel, Aru, with special reference to reduplication". In Grimes, C.E. (ed.). Spices from the East: Papers in languages of Eastern Indonesia. Pacific Linguistics No. 503. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 131–180. doi:10.15144/PL-503.131. hdl:1885/146101. ISBN 978-0-85883-460-6.