Southwest Tanimbar languages

Southwest Tanimbar
Southwest Tanimbar
South Tanimbar, Selaru
Geographic; distribution	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timor-Babar Southwest Tanimbar; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Selaru; Seluwasan (including Makatian);
Language codes
Glottolog	sout2890

The Southwest Tanimbar languages^[1], also known as the South Tanimbar languages or Selaru languages, are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. They are not closely related, being 56% lexically similar (Ethnologue).

These languages are Selaru and Seluwasan.

References

↑ Grimes, Charles E. & Owen Edwards. 2026. The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Unravelling their prehistory and classification. Berlin: Language Science Press.

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Southwest Tanimbar
South Tanimbar, Selaru
Geographic distribution	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timor-Babar Southwest Tanimbar
Subdivisions	Selaru Seluwasan (including Makatian)
Language codes
Glottolog	`sout2890`