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Watubela
Watubela
Native to	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Region	Watubela Islands
Native speakers	(4,000 cited 1990)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seran Laut Watubela; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wah
Glottolog	watu1247

Watubela is an Austronesian language of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. It is closely related to Geser.^[2]^[3]

It reflects Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *q as k, such as lalak "blood" < *daʀaq.

External links

^ Watubela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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.