Blagar language
| Blagar | |
|---|---|
| Tereweng | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 1981)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: beu – Blagar twg – Tereweng |
| Glottolog |
blag1240 (Blagar)[2]tere1277 (Tereweng)[3] |
Blagar is a Papuan language of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. The Tereweng dialect on Teweweng Island of the coast of Pantar is sometimes treated as a distinct language.
Alphabet
The Blagar language has 26 letters (Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz) and two diphthongs (ng and sy).
c, q, sy, x and z are only used in loanwords and foreign names.
References
- ↑ Blagar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tereweng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Blagar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tereweng". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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