Kaera is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

spoken on the northeastern coast of

Pantar island Pantar ( id, Pulau Pantar) is the second largest island in the Indonesian Alor Archipelago, after Alor. To the east is the island of Alor and other small islands in the archipelago; to the west is the Alor Strait, which separates it from the S ...

in the Alor archipelago of

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. It belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family. Kaera is used alongside Indonesian in religious contexts, but not used in education.

Phonology

All the information in this section is from Klamer's sketch grammar.

Consonants

Vowels

References

External links

Kaera Abangiwang Collection
at The Language Archive Alor–Pantar languages Articles citing ISO change requests Languages of Indonesia {{TNG-lang-stub