The Kei–Tanimbar languages are a small group of Austronesian languages spoken on the Kei and Tanimbar islands in the southern Maluku Islands, and on the north side of the Bomberai Peninsula.Mills, Roger F. (1991). Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup. In Robert Blust (ed.), Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace, 241-263. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.Blust, R. (1993). Central and Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 32(2), 241-293. The languages include:
Kei–Tanimbar Kei–Fordata Kei Fordata Yamdena–North Bomberai Yamdena North Bomberai Onin Sekar Uruangnirin
Grimes & Edwards add the following languages, previously incertae sedis, and rename the family Tanimbar–Bomberai:Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
Teor-Kur Irarutu–Nabi: Irarutu, Kuri (Nabi) Bedoanas–Erokwanas: Arguni, Bedoanas, Erokwanas
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