The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the

Kei Kei may refer to: People * Kei (given name) * Kei, Cantonese for Ji (surname), Ji(姫) * Kei, Cantonese for Qi (surname), Qi(奇, 祁, 亓) * Shō Kei (1700–1752), king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom * Kei (singer) (born 1995), stage name of South Kor ...

and

Tanimbar The Tanimbar Islands, also called ''Timur Laut'', are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The largest and most central of the islands is Yamdena; others include Selaru to the southwest of Yamdena, Larat and Forda ...

islands in the southern

Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located eas ...

, and on the north side of the

Bomberai Peninsula Bomberai Peninsula ( id, Semenanjung Bomberai), otherwise known as the Bird's Beak Peninsula ( id, Semenanjung Paruh Burung), is located in the Western New Guinea region, opposite to and to the south of the Bird's Head Peninsula. To the west lies ...

. The languages include: *Kei–Fordata **

** Fordata *Yamdena–North Bomberai ** Yamdena **North Bomberai *** Onin ***

Sekar Manokaris a male given name in India. Sekar may refer to: *Sekar Ayu Asmara, Indonesian songwriter and director *Sekar Ayyanthole (born 1954), Indian painter *Sekhar Basu (born 1952), Indian scientist *Sekhar Das (born 1954), Indian film director * ...

*** Uruangnirin Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously '' incertae sedis'', and rename the family ''Tanimbar–Bomberai'':Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) ''Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste
Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
* Teor-Kur *Irarutu–Nabi:

Irarutu Irarutu, Irahutu, or Kasira, is an Austronesian language of most of the interior of the Bomberai Peninsula of north-western New Guinea in Teluk Bintuni Regency. The name “Irarutu” comes from the language itself, where “ira” conjoins with ...

, Kuri (Nabi) *Bedoanas–Erokwanas: Arguni, Bedoanas, Erokwanas

References

Languages of Indonesia Central Malayo-Polynesian languages {{austronesian-lang-stub