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Bati language (Indonesia)

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Bati
Native toIndonesia (Maluku Islands)
RegionSeram Island
Native speakers
(3,500 cited 1989)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bvt
Glottologbati1253
ELPBati (Indonesia)

Bati is an Austronesian language of eastern Seram Island, Indonesia. It is closely related to Geser and Watubela.[2]

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  1. ^ Bati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Loski, Russell A. and Gail M. Loski (1989). "The languages indigenous to Eastern Seram and adjacent islands". In Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), Maluku (Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 6), 103-142. Ambon: Pattimura University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.