Retta (Reta) 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 ...

spoken on the south sides of Pura and Ternate islands, between

Pantar Pantar (; ) is the second largest island in the Indonesian Alor Archipelago, after Alor Island, 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 Solor ...

and Alor in the Alor archipelago of

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 is not mutually intelligible with Blagar, which is spoken on the north side of Pura Island, and is unrelated to

Alorese Alorese () is an Austronesian language 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 Taiwan ...

, which is spoken on the north side of Ternate.

References

Alor–Pantar languages Languages of Indonesia {{TNG-lang-stub