Isla Kisar


Native of Kisar.

The island of Kisar is an island in the south of the Moluccan archipelago in Indonesia, which is situated in the Wetar Strait and joins East Timor, is one of the outer islands of Indonesia. It is part of the southeastern area of ​​the province of Malaku (Moluccas) and is located at the coordinates 8 ° 6'10 "S 127 ° 8'36" E / -8.10278, 127.14333.

The main language of the island is the Oirata language, a Papu language closely related to the Fataluku language of East Timor. It seems that the island was repopulated from the north of East Timor in the early eighteenth century, as the Dutch sources believe.

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