Sawila language

Sawila
Native toIndonesia
RegionAlor Island
Native speakers
3,000 (2014)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3swt
Glottologsawi1256
ELPSawila

Sawila, or Tanglapui, is a Papuan language of the Alor archipelago. Dialects are Sawila proper, Lona, Salimana, Lalamana, Sileba. Sawila speakers refer to their language as Manata.[2]

  1. ^ "The Alor-Pantar languages".
  2. ^ Kratochvíl, František (2014). "Sawila". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 351–438.