Retta language
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| Retta | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 800)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ret |
| Glottolog | rett1240 |
Retta (Reta) is a Papuan language spoken on the south sides of Pura and Ternate islands (Willemsen 2021), between Pantar and Alor in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. It is not mutually intelligible with Blagar, which is spoken on the north side of Pura Island, and is unrelated to Alorese, which is spoken on the north side of Ternate.
References
[edit]Willemsen, Jeroen. 2021. A Grammar of Reta. PhD dissertation, Aarhus University Denmark)
- ^ Retta at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
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| Retta | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 800)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ret |
| Glottolog | rett1240 |
Retta (Reta) is a Papuan language spoken on the south sides of Pura and Ternate islands (Willemsen 2021), between Pantar and Alor in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. It is not mutually intelligible with Blagar, which is spoken on the north side of Pura Island, and is unrelated to Alorese, which is spoken on the north side of Ternate.
References
Willemsen, Jeroen. 2021. A Grammar of Reta. PhD dissertation, Aarhus University Denmark)
- ^ Retta at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
 | This article about Trans–New Guinea languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |