Kei–Tanimbar languages

The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Kei and Tanimbar islands in the southern Maluku Islands, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula.^[1][2] The languages include:

• Kei–Tanimbar
  • Kei–Fordata
    • Kei
    • Fordata
  • Yamdena–North Bomberai
    • Yamdena
    • North Bomberai
      • Onin
      • Sekar
      • Uruangnirin

Kei–Tanimbar
Southeast Maluku Tanimbar–Bomberai
Geographic distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central–Eastern MP Kei–Tanimbar
Language codes
Glottolog	keit1238

Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis, and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai:^[3]

• Teor-Kur
• Irarutu–Nabi: Irarutu, Kuri (Nabi)
• Bedoanas–Erokwanas: Arguni, Bedoanas, Erokwanas

References

1. Mills, Roger F. (1991). Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace, 241-263. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
2. Blust, R. (1993). Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32(2), 241-293.
3. Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.