Language family
The Southwest Tanimbar languages[1], also known as the South Tanimbar languages or Selaru languages, are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. They are not closely related, being 56% lexically similar (Ethnologue).
References
- ↑ Grimes, Charles E. & Owen Edwards. 2026. The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Unravelling their prehistory and classification. Berlin: Language Science Press.
| Aru | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maluku * |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Flores–Lembata |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Kei–Tanimbar ? | |||||||||||||||||
| Sumba–Flores |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Timoric * |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Others | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| Formosan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malayo-Polynesian |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||