isolate
Mor (Bomberai Peninsula)
- Glottocode
- morb1239
- Glottolog’s permanent identifier for this language. Names change, and one name can mean several languages; the code does neither. This whole map is keyed on codes, never on names.
- ISO 639-3
- moq
- Endangerment status
- moribund
- Glottolog’s AES assessment: an expert judgement of how far speakers have shifted to another language — not a measurement, not a census, and not a speaker count.
- Coordinates
- 132.8450°E, 2.8575°S
- Territory
- Polygon present, from Glottography dataset derived from Asher and Moseley 2007 "Atlas of the World's Languages"
- Classification
- isolate
- An isolate: no other language has been shown to be related to it, so it stands alone as a family of one.
- Alternate names
- Mor · Mor (Bomberai Peninsula, Indonesia) · Mor (of Bomberai) · Mor2
No speaker count is given. Glottolog carries no reliable figures and proprietary sources are not used. An unsourced number is worse than an absent one.
Sources
- Glottolog 5.3 as CLDF v5.3 · CC-BY-4.0
Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2026. Glottolog 5.3. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Glottography dataset derived from Asher and Moseley 2007 "Atlas of the World's Languages" v2.0 · CC-BY-4.0
Asher, R. E. & Christopher J. Moseley (eds.) 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages. 2nd edn. Routledge.
- Glottography dataset derived from Schapper 2020 "Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 3" v2.0 · CC-BY-4.0
Schapper, Antoinette. 2020. Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 3. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9781501511158-001.
- Natural Earth vector, 1:10m cultural and physical v5.1.2 · public-domain
Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain.
Nearest relatives
An isolate: no known relatives among the languages mapped here.