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Wanukaka

A language of Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara)

ISO 639-3wnk

Population  10,000 (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
Region  Sumba Island, southwest coast, east of Lamboya.
Language map  Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara and Southwestern Maluku
Alternate names   Wanokaka
Dialects  Wanukaka, Rua. Similar to, but unintelligible to Wejewa [wew], Mamboru [mud], Lamboya [lmy], and Anakalangu [akg] speakers. Intelligibility with varieties in east Sumba and Kambera uncertain.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Bima-Sumba