Kisar is a
Central Malayo-Polynesian language
The Central Malayo-Polynesian languages (CMP) are a proposed branch in the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The languages are spoken in the Lesser Sunda and Maluku Islands of the Banda Sea, in an area corresponding ...
spoken on
Kisar Island, northeast of East Timor in
Maluku,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
. It shares the island with
Oirata, which is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
.
References
Further reading
* Taber, Mark (1993).
Toward a Better Understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku" ''Oceanic Linguistics'', Vol. 32, No. 2 (Winter, 1993), pp. 389–441. University of Hawai'i.
Timor–Babar languages
Languages of Indonesia
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