Batanta, a possibly extinct Austronesian language of the island with the same name (northwest of the Bird's Head of Papua), is missing. Batanta was a separate language according to un-intelligibility (to the varieties subsumed under Ma'ya [slz]) reports ( A. C. L. Remijsen 2002: 42 , van der Leeden, Alexander C. 1987: 83 ) and a little data appears in Cowan, H. K. J. 1953 . See also: Misool-Salawati Ma'ya [slz].