Batuley

BAY

threatened

Alternate Names: Gwataley, Watulai

Dialects: None known. Slightly more distant from Dobel ,. Lexical similarity: 70% with Barakai , and Karey ,, 81% with Mariri ,.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Aru

Demographics: 3,640 (2011 SIL).

Language Use: Vigorous.

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%.

Nation of Origin: Indonesia

Other Comments: Muslim.