Salawati language

Salawati
Salawati
Maden
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Salawati Island
Native speakers	600 (2001)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Halmahera Sea Salawati; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xmx
Glottolog	made1253

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

^ Salawati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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
^ LAISEANG: Butleh

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