Te'un language

Te’un
Native to Indonesia
Region Seram Island
Ethnicity 1,200 (1990)[1]
Extinct (date missing)[2]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tve
Glottolog teun1241[3]

Te’un (Teun) is an Austronesian language originally spoken on Teun Island in Maluku, Indonesia. Speakers were relocated to Seram due to volcanic activity on Teun.

References

  1. ↑ Te'un at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ Te’un at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Te'un". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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