Teiwa language

Not to be confused with Tewa language.
Teiwa
Native toIndonesia
RegionPantar Island
Native speakers
4,000 (2010)[1]
Dialects
  • Teiwa
  • Sar
Language codes
ISO 639-3twe
Glottologteiw1236
ELPTeiwa
Approximate location where Teiwa is spoken
Approximate location where Teiwa is spoken
Teiwa
Approximate location where Teiwa is spoken
Approximate location where Teiwa is spoken
Teiwa
Approximate location where Teiwa is spoken
Approximate location where Teiwa is spoken
Teiwa
Coordinates: 8°23′S 124°10′E / 8.38°S 124.17°E / -8.38; 124.17

Teiwa (also referred to as Tewa)[2] is a Papuan language spoken on the Pantar island in eastern Indonesia. The island is the second largest in the Alor archipelago, lying just west of the largest island Alor.

Teiwa is a morphosyntactically simple language with little inflection and is as such described as an isolating language, also known as an analytic language. It is pronounced by a complex pronoun system.

  1. ^ Teiwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Klamer 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).