Yalahatan

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Atamanu, Awaiya, Jahalatan, Jahalatane, Yalahatan-Haruru-Awaiya

1,700 (2004 SIL), decreasing.

Maluku province: Makulu Tengah regency, south central Seram island coastal area.

Language Maps

7 (Shifting).

Slight dialect differences reported between the 2 villages. Lexical similarity: 50%–52% with Sepa [spb], 49%–50% with Sou Nama [tlt].

Adults only. Many shifting to Ambonese Malay [abs]. Also use Indonesian [ind].

Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Dictionary. Bible portions: 1990.

Latin script [Latn].

The name Atamanu is not currently known.