Tanglapui languages

Tanglapui
Kolana–Tanglapui
Geographic
distribution
Alor Island
Linguistic classification Trans–New Guinea
Subdivisions
Glottolog tang1352[1]

The Tanglapui languages are a pair of closely related Papuan languages, Sawila and Kula, spoken on the island of Alor, of the coast of Timor in Indonesia. They have only marginal mutual intelligibility, and are ethnically distinct. The name 'Tanglapui' is used for either language.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tanglapui". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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