Geser language

Geser
Geser
Geser-Gorom
Native to	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Region	Seram, Geser Islands
Native speakers	(37,000 cited 1989)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seran Laut Geser; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ges
Glottolog	gese1240

Last updated October 04, 2025

Geser is an Austronesian language of the east end of Seram and the Gorom Islands, Indonesia. It is closely related to Watubela.^[2]^[3]

Phonology

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	( ɲ )	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative		( f )	s			h
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

/h/ and /f/ are in free alteration among the dialects of Geser and Gorom.

/ɲ/ rarely occurs.^[4]

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

External links

↑ Geser at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Collins, J.T. (1986). "Eastern Seram: a subgrouping argument". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. eds, FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. C-94:123-146. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.
↑ Loski, Russell A. and Gail M. Loski (1989). "The languages indigenous to Eastern Seram and adjacent islands". In Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), Maluku (Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 6), 103-142. Ambon: Pattimura University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
↑ Chlenova, Svetlana (2010). Заметки о языке гесер-гором с приложением словника и образцов предложений [Notes on Geser-Gorom: Wordlist and a sample of sentences]. In Chlenova, Svetlana and Fedorchuk, Artem (eds.), Studia Anthropologica: a Festschrift in Honor of Michael Chlenov: Moscow/Jerusalem: Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim. pp. 360–410.

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[e25-1] Geser at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Collins, J.T. (1986). "Eastern Seram: a subgrouping argument". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. eds, FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. C-94:123-146. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.

[3] Loski, Russell A. and Gail M. Loski (1989). "The languages indigenous to Eastern Seram and adjacent islands". In Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), Maluku (Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 6), 103-142. Ambon: Pattimura University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[4] Chlenova, Svetlana (2010). Заметки о языке гесер-гором с приложением словника и образцов предложений [Notes on Geser-Gorom: Wordlist and a sample of sentences]. In Chlenova, Svetlana and Fedorchuk, Artem (eds.), Studia Anthropologica: a Festschrift in Honor of Michael Chlenov: Moscow/Jerusalem: Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim. pp. 360–410.

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