Social:Teun language

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Short description: Extinct Austronesian language of Indonesia
Teun
Native toIndonesia
RegionSeram Island
Ethnicity1,200 (1990)[1]
Extinct2013[2]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Central–Eastern
      • Timoric
        • Southwest Maluku
          • Teun–Nila–Serua
            • Teun
Language codes
ISO 639-3tve
Glottologteun1241[3]

Teun (also rendered Teʼun[4]) is an Austronesian language originally spoken on Teun Island (Mesa, Yafila and Wotludan villages) and Nila Island (Bumei village) in Maluku, Indonesia. Speakers were relocated to Seram due to volcanic activity on Teun.[5][6]

References

  1. Teun language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Teun". https://asjp.clld.org/languages/TEUN. "status extinct since 2013" 
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Teun". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/teun1241. 
  4. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
  5. Aone van Engelenhoven (2003). "Language endangerment in Indonesia: The incipient obsolescence and acute death of Teun, Nila and Serua (Central and Southwest Maluku)". in Mark Janse. Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive Approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 49–80. 
  6. Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a Better Understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku." Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Winter, 1993), pp. 389–441. University of Hawaiʻi.

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