Oirata (also known as Maaro) is a Papuan language spoken on the island of Kisar in Indonesia, and in Ambon City. It is sometimes considered a dialect of the Fataluku language spoken in East Timor, as the two languages are closely related. According to Ethnologue, there were 1,200 speakers in 1987. Kisar is a small island in the Southwestern Moluccas in Indonesia, to the northeast of Timor Island. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families A language family is a group of related languages said to have descended from a common proto-language. ... Trans-New Guinea is a family of languages spoken mainly in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... The term Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. ... Kisar is a small island in the Southwestern Moluccas in Indonesia, to the northeast of Timor Island. ... Ambon City (1990 pop. ... Fataluku is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 30 000 people in eastern areas of East Timor. ... Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language. ...

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• Ethnologue page