Teiwa language
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Not to be confused with Tewa language.
Teiwa (also referred to as Tewa)[2] is a Papuan language spoken on the Pantar island in eastern Indonesia. The island is the second largest in the Alor archipelago, lying just west of the largest island Alor.
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Teiwa | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2010)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | twe |
Glottolog | teiw1236 |
ELP | Teiwa |
Coordinates: 8.38°S 124.17°E / -8.38; 124.17 |
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Teiwa is a morphosyntactically simple language with little inflection and is as such described as an isolating language, also known as an analytic language. It is pronounced by a complex pronoun system.