East Damar is one of two
Austronesian languages spoken on
Damar Island
Damer, or Damar, ( id, Pulau Damer) is a small volcanic island in the Barat Daya Islands group in Indonesia's Maluku province, on the southern side of the Banda Sea. It is flanked by four smaller islands - one to the east, one to the west and tw ...
and islets just to the south in
Maluku, Indonesia. It is not closely related to the other language of Damar Island, the highly divergent
West Damar language
West Damar, or ''North Damar'', is an Austronesian language of Damar Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. In spite of rather low cognacy rates with its neighboring languages, it can be classified as part of the Babar languages
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References
Timor–Babar languages
Languages of the Maluku Islands
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