Watubela is an Austronesian language of the

Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonics, Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West ...

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. It is closely related to Geser.Loski, Russell A. and Gail M. Loski (1989)
"The languages indigenous to Eastern Seram and adjacent islands"
In Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), ''Maluku'' (Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 6), 103-142. Ambon: Pattimura University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics. It reflects

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesia ...

''*q'' as ''k'', such as ''lalak'' "blood" < ''*daʀaq'' and ''katlu'' "egg" < ''*qatəluʀ''.

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