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Geser language

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Geser
Geser-Gorom
Native toIndonesia (Maluku Islands)
RegionSeram, Geser Islands
Native speakers
(37,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ges
Glottologgese1240

Geser is an Austronesian language of the east end of Seram and the Gorom Islands, Indonesia. It is closely related to Watubela.[2][3]


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  1. ^ Geser at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Collins, J.T. (1986). "Eastern Seram: a subgrouping argument". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. eds, FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. C-94:123-146. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.
  3. ^ 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.