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Teiwa (referred to as Tewa) is a non-Austronesian, Papuan language spoken on the Pantar island in eastern Indonesia. The island is the second largest in the Alor archipelago, lying just west of the largest island Alor.
There were 4000 documented native speakers of Teiwa in 2010. The speakers live primarily in the desa's (administrative village in Indonesian) Lebang, Boweli, Kalib, Nule, Kadir, and Madar, a village of 460 inhabitants (as of 2007). Lebang is the main village, where Teiwa was still spoken by most people, young and old. Nevertheless, the national language of Indonesian as well as the Chinese-influenced Alor-Malay tend to be spoken by the younger generations and used for teaching in schools. As a result of this dwindling number of native speakers, Teiwa is listed as an endangered language.
The Grammar of Teiwa by Margaret Klamer is the only linguistic documentation besides a short word list from Stokhof (1975). Klamer gathered most of her data in the village of Madar.
Teiwa, or Bahasa Teiwa as it is referred to in Indonesian, means 'the Teiwa language'. Teiwa itself is a nominal compound and can be translated as tei wa' meaning "tree leaf". The term "Teiwa" derives from the name of the main clan that speaks it. Generally, when Teiwa speakers refer to their own language, especially to differentiate it from the national language Indonesian, they call it pitarau '1p.inclusive-language', i.e. "our language".
Teiwa is a morphosyntactically simple language with little inflection, and is as such described as an isolating language, also known as an analytic language. It is pronounced by a complex pronoun system.