Seluwasan language

Seluwasan
Native to Indonesia
Region Tanimbar Islands
Native speakers
(2,840 cited 1980)[1]
Dialects
  • Makatian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sws
Glottolog selu1242[2]

Seluwasan is an Austronesian language of Yamdena, in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It is not close to Selaru. Makatian dialect is distinct.

References

  1. ↑ Seluwasan at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Seluwasan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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