Salawati is an Austronesian language spoken on the west of

Salawati Island Salawati is one of the four major islands in the Raja Ampat Islands in Southwest Papua (formerly West Papua), Indonesia. Its area is 1,623 km2. Salawati is separated from New Guinea to the southeast by the Sele Strait (a.k.a. Galowa Str ...

, in the

Raja Ampat Islands Raja Ampat, or the ''Four Kings'', is an archipelago located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's Southwest Papua province. It comprises over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding ...

in Indonesian New Guinea.

Dialects

The dialects of Salawati are as follows: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 *''Butleh'', also called ''Banlol'' (exonym) or ''Fiawat'' (village name)LAISEANG: Butleh
/ref> *''Kawit'' *''Tepin/Tipin''

References

South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages Languages of western New Guinea {{indonesia-stub