KEI �TANIMBAR LANGUAGES

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

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

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

References

^ 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.
^ Blust, R. (1993). Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32(2), 241-293.
^ 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.

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