Southeast Babar language

Southeast Babar is an Austronesian language spoken on Babar Island in South Maluku, Indonesia.[2]

Southeast Babar
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Maluku
Native speakers	4,500 (2007)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central–Eastern MP Babar South Babar Masela–Southeast Southeast Babar
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vbb
Glottolog	sout2883

References

1. Southeast Babar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a better understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku". Oceanic Linguistics. 32 (2): 389–441. JSTOR 3623199.

Further reading

• Hein Steinhauer. 2009. The sounds of Southeast Babar. In Adelaar, K. Alexander and Pawley, Andrew (eds.), Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust, 399-409. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.