| Blagar | |
|---|---|
| Tereweng | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2014)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea ?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:beu – Blagartwg – Tereweng |
| Glottolog | blag1240 Blagartere1277 Tereweng |
| ELP | Blagar |
 Languages of the Alor Islands. Blagar is shown in yellow. | |
Blagar is a Papuan language of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. The Tereweng dialect spoken on Tereweng Island off the southeast coast of Pantar[2] is sometimes considered a separate language.[3]
The increasing prominence of Indonesian has been putting pressure on the Blagar language although the language is still used by all age groups.[4] By the 1970s Indonesian replaced Blagar as the language of churches and mosques, and in the early 2000s the spread of Indonesian was furthered by the introduction of electricity on Pura Island.[4]
- ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Tereweng". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
- ^ "Blagar alphabet, pronunciation [sic] and language". Omniglot. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
- ^ a b Steinhauer 2014, p. 149.