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(Redirected from Mor language (Mor Islands)) Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia Not to be confused with Mor language (Papuan).
Mor
Native toIndonesia
RegionMoor Island, Nabire Regency, Central Papua
Native speakers(700 cited 1987)
Language familyAustronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3mhz
Glottologmorm1235
ELPMor (Mor Islands, Indonesia)

Mor or Moor is a tonal Austronesian language in the putative Cenderawasih branch (Geelvink Bay) of Indonesian Papua.

Its dialects are Ayombai, Hirom, and Kama.

References

  1. Mor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Kamholz, David (2014). Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and Change in South Halmahera–West New Guinea (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Berkeley.

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