Salawati
Maden
Native toIndonesia
RegionSalawati Island
Native speakers
600 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xmx
Glottologmade1253

Salawati is an Austronesian language spoken on the west of Salawati Island, in the Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesian New Guinea.

Dialects

The dialects of Salawati are as follows:[2]:17

  • Butleh, also called Banlol (exonym) or Fiawat (village name)[3]
  • Kawit
  • Tepin/Tipin

References

  1. Salawati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Kamholz, David (2014). Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and change in South Halmahera–West New Guinea. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zg8b1vd
  3. LAISEANG: Butleh
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