Social:Kamarian language

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Short description: Extinct language formerly spoken in Maluku, Indonesia
Kamarian
Native toIndonesia
Regionwest Seram Island, Moluccas
Ethnicity6,000 in Kamarian village (1987)[1]
Extinctca. 2000[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Central–Eastern
      • Central Maluku ?
        • East Central Maluku
          • Seram ?
            • Nunusaku
              • Piru Bay
                • East
                  • Solehua
                    • Seram Straits
                      • Uliase
                        • Kamarian
Language codes
ISO 639-3kzx
Glottologkama1362[2]

Kamarian is an extinct Austronesian language. It was spoken at the southwestern coast of Seram Island in the Moluccas in eastern Indonesia.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kamarian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kamarian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kama1362. 
  3. Collins, James T. (1983). The Historical Relationships of the Languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.