East Damar is one of two
Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken ...
spoken on
Damar Island
Damer, or Damar, (), also called Kenli Island, is a small volcano, volcanic island in the Barat Daya Islands group in Indonesia's Maluku (Indonesian province), Maluku province, on the southern side of the Banda Sea. It is flanked by four smaller ...
in
Maluku, Indonesia.
It is not closely related to the other language of Damar Island, the highly divergent
West Damar language.
References
Timor–Babar languages
Languages of the Maluku Islands
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