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Timor-Alor-Pantar languages map

22 Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are on the map, most of them in Indonesia. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Alor-Pantar (18 languages). The best-known members include Blagar, Adang and Oirata. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Timor-Alor-Pantar family at a glance

  • 22languages
  • 21drawn as areas
  • 1shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Timor-Alor-Pantar alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Timor-Alor-Pantar languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Blagar spoken? (about 10,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Adang spoken? (about 3,000 speakers)
  3. Where is Oirata spoken? (about 1,049 speakers)

Branches of Timor-Alor-Pantar

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Alor-Pantar (18)
  • East Timor (3)

Where Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are spoken

Countries with the most Timor-Alor-Pantar languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 22 Timor-Alor-Pantar languages, A to Z

Questions about Timor-Alor-Pantar languages

How many Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are there?

22 living Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Alor-Pantar (18 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Timor-Alor-Pantar languages spoken?

Indonesia (20) and Timor-Leste (3) have the most Timor-Alor-Pantar languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Timor-Alor-Pantar languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Blagar (about 10,000), Adang (about 3,000) and Oirata (about 1,049). These figures differ between sources and years.

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