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Nusantara Languages

Sentanic

Sentani

Map

Glottocode
nucl1632
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
set
Endangerment status
not endangered
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
140.5120°E, 2.6013°S
Territory
Polygon present, from Glottography dataset derived from Asher and Moseley 2007 "Atlas of the World's Languages"
Classification
SentanicNuclear SentanicSentani-Nafri
Alternate names
Buyaka

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

Nearest relatives

Deepest shared ancestor
Sentani-Nafri
1 other languages on this map
Closest recorded point
Nafri
20 km

They are

All equally close. Glottolog’s classification is a nesting without branch lengths, so this list cannot be ordered by how closely related its members are.

Measured between recorded points, not between speaker areas. Glottolog’s coordinate is frequently the midpoint of a dispersed population, so this is an order of magnitude rather than a survey.

Computed only among the 726 languages mapped here. A language whose family mostly lives outside Indonesia may have a nearer relative off this map.

Method, sources, and what this map does not claim