East Damar language

East Damar
	South Damar
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Damar Island
Native speakers	(2,800 cited 1990)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timor–Babar Southwest Maluku East Damar; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dmr
Glottolog	east2472[2]

East Damar is one of two Austronesian languages spoken on Damar Island and islets just to the south in Maluku, Indonesia. It is not closely related to the other language of Damar Island, the highly divergent West Damar language.

References

East Damar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Damar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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