Bilba language

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Bilba
Eastern Rote
Native to Indonesia
Region Rote Island
Native speakers
7,000 (2002) [1]
Dialects
  • Bilba
  • Diu
  • Lelenuk
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bpz
Glottolog bilb1242 [2]

Bilba (Belubaa) is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of Roti Island, off Timor, Indonesia.

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References

  1. Bilba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bilba". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.