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Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Kei and Tanimbar islands in the southern Maluku Islands , and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula .[ 1] [ 2]
Kei–Tanimbar
Kei–Fordata
Yamdena–North Bomberai
Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis Tanimbar–Bomberai :[ 3]
^ Mills, Roger F. (1991). Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace, 241-263. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
^ Blust, R. (1993).
Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32 (2), 241-293.
^ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics .
* indicates proposed status
? indicates classification dispute
† indicates extinct status
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