Glottolog 5.1

Bookkeeping: Adabe

This entry has been retired and is featured here only for bookkeeping purposes. Either the entry has been replaced with one or more more accurate entries or it has been retired because it was based on a misunderstanding to begin with.

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:: Atauran (adb-adb) = 6a* (Vigorous).

Adabe [adb], an alleged Papuan language of Atauro island, does not exist and it has been explained how it was mistakenly thought to exist ( Hull, Geoffrey 1998: 3-4 ) viz. a misreading of an ambiguous statement by a missionary that made it into Stephen Wurm and Shirô Hattori 1981 from where the E16/E17/E18/E19/E20/E21/E22/E23/E24/E25/E26/E27 entry derives from ( Hull, Geoffrey 2004: 41 ).