Babar languages

{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Babar

|region=Indonesia

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern

|child1=North

|child2=South

|child3=West Damar

|glotto=baba1274

|glottorefname=Babar

}}

The Babar languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken on the Babar Islands, Indonesia.Mark Taber. 1993. Toward a better understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku. Oceanic Linguistics 32. 389-441.Aone van Engelenhoven. 2010. Tentatively locating West-Damar among the languages of Southwest Maluku. In Chlenova, Svetlana and Fedorchuk, Artem (eds.), Studia Anthropologica: a Festschrift in Honor of Michael Chlenov, 297-326. Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim.