Teiwa language
| Teiwa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2010) |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | twe |
| Glottolog | teiw1236 |
| ELP | Teiwa |
| Coordinates: 8°23′S 124°10′E / 8.38°S 124.17°E | |
Teiwa (also referred to as Tewa) is a Papuan language spoken on the Pantar island in eastern Indonesia. The island is the second largest in the Alor archipelago, lying just west of the largest island Alor.
Teiwa is a morphosyntactically simple language with little inflection and is as such described as an isolating language, also known as an analytic language. It is pronounced by a complex pronoun system.