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Emplawas language

Emplawas is an Austronesian language spoken in a single village on Babar Island in South Maluku, Indonesia.

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Emplawas
Native toIndonesia
RegionMaluku
Native speakers
250 (2007)1
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3emw
Glottologempl1237
ELPEmplawas

Emplawas is an Austronesian language spoken in a single village on Babar Island in South Maluku, Indonesia.2

References

References

  1. Emplawas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a better understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku". Oceanic Linguistics. 32 (2): 389–441. doi:10.2307/3623199. JSTOR 3623199.