Sika language
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| Sika | ||
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| Spoken in: | Indonesia | |
| Region: | Flores | |
| Total speakers: | 180,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Central Timor Sika |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | ski
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The Sika or Sikanese language is a member of the Central Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, and is spoken by around 180,000 people of the Sika ethnic group on Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It is notable for being one of the few languages which contains a non-allophonic labiodental flap.
[edit] External link
- Sika at the Ethnologue
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