East Damar language

East Damar is one of two Austronesian languages spoken on Damar Island in Maluku, Indonesia.

East Damar
South Damar
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Damar Island
Native speakers	(2,800 cited 1990)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timoric Southwest Maluku East Damar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dmr
Glottolog	east2472

It is not closely related to the other language of Damar Island, the highly divergent West Damar language.^[2]

References

1. East Damar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a better understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku". Oceanic Linguistics. 32 (2): 389–441. doi:10.2307/3623199. JSTOR 3623199.