The four identified principal varieties of Wetarese on Wetar – Aputai, Iliʼuun, Perai and Tugun – are distinct enough that some may consider them to be different languages.
Wetarese is closely related to
Galoli (spoken on the north coast of
East Timor and by an immigrant community on the south coast of Wetar) and to
Atauran (spoken on
Atauro island).
Hinton, Bryan D. (2000). "The languages of Wetar: recent survey results and word lists with notes on Tugun grammar". In Grimes, Charles E. (ed.). Spices from the East: Papers in Languages of Eastern Indonesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 105–129.
doi:10.15144/PL-503.105.
hdl:1885/146101.
The four identified principal varieties of Wetarese on Wetar – Aputai, Iliʼuun, Perai and Tugun – are distinct enough that some may consider them to be different languages.
Wetarese is closely related to
Galoli (spoken on the north coast of
East Timor and by an immigrant community on the south coast of Wetar) and to
Atauran (spoken on
Atauro island).
Hinton, Bryan D. (2000). "The languages of Wetar: recent survey results and word lists with notes on Tugun grammar". In Grimes, Charles E. (ed.). Spices from the East: Papers in Languages of Eastern Indonesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 105–129.
doi:10.15144/PL-503.105.
hdl:1885/146101.