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Telaʼa language

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Telaʼa
Tela-Masbuar
Native toIndonesia
RegionMaluku
Native speakers
1,100 (2007)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3tvm
Glottologtela1241

Telaʼa, or Tela-Masbuar (Masbuar-Tela) is an Austronesian language spoken in the two villages with those names on Babar Island in South Maluku, Indonesia.[2]

References

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