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Maden
Native toIndonesia
RegionSalawati Island
Native speakers
600 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xmx
Glottologmade1253

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

Dialects

Dialects are:[2]: 17 

  • Butleh, also called Banlol (exonym) or Fiawat (village name)[3]
  • Kawit
  • Tepin/Tipin

References

  1. ^ Maden at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ LAISEANG: Butleh
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