The Sika or Sikanese language is a member of the Central Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family and is spoken by around 180000 people of the Sika ethnic group on Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province Indonesia. It is notable for being one of the few languages which contains a non-allophonic labiodental flap. It shows evidence of having a Papuan (non-Austronesian) substratum.
ISO 639-3 code
ski
family
Flores–Lembata languages, Malayo-Polynesian languages, Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages
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