Selaru language

Selaru
Native to Indonesia
Region Tanimbar Islands
Native speakers
8,000 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 slu
Glottolog sela1259[2]

Selaru is an Austronesian language of Selaru and Yamdena, in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. Linguistically is not close to Seluwasan, its nearest relative.

References

  1. ↑ Selaru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Selaru". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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