[3] It is spoken in two villages (Batumerah, Kuai) located in the north-western part of Damar.
West Damar has a series of possessive suffixes that are attached to nouns.
When split into a circumfix, ke- -we serves as a simple negator for content words like nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
A few examples of negation provided by Chlenova are as follows: ke-mormorsa-weNEG-buffalo-NEGke-mormorsa-weNEG-buffalo-NEG"not a buffalo"PiterPeterke-tucha-we-moNEG-old-NEG-?odo-i1SG-DETPiter ke-tucha-we-mo odo-iPeter NEG-old-NEG-?
1SG-DET"Peter (is) not as old as I (am)"Another negative predicative word krawui "unavailable" is also recorded.