Kei–Tanimbar languages

Kei–Tanimbar
Kei–Tanimbar
Southeast Maluku; Tanimbar–Bomberai
Geographic; distribution	Indonesia
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central–Eastern MP Kei–Tanimbar; ; ;
Glottolog	keit1238

The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Kei and Tanimbar islands in the southern Maluku Islands, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula. The languages include:

Kei–Tanimbar
- Kei–Fordata
  - Kei
  - Fordata
- Yamdena–North Bomberai
  - Yamdena
  - North Bomberai
    - Onin
    - Sekar
    - Uruangnirin

Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis, and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai:

Teor-Kur
Irarutu–Nabi: Irarutu, Kuri (Nabi)
Bedoanas–Erokwanas: Arguni, Bedoanas, Erokwanas

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