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Aru Language (other)
Aru may refer to: *One of the Aru languages of Indonesia * Amol language of Papua New Guinea *A dialect of Guhu-Samane of Papua New Guinea *Aru, another name for the Aymaran languages Aymaran (also Jaqi or Aru) is one of the two dominant language families in the central Andes alongside Quechuan. The family consists of Aymara, widely spoken in Bolivia, and the endangered Jaqaru and Kawki languages of Peru. Hardman (1978) pr ...
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Aru Languages
The Aru languages are a group of a dozen Austronesian languages spoken on the Aru Islands in Indonesia. None are spoken by more than ten thousand people. Although geographically close to Central Maluku languages, they are not part of that group linguistically (Ross 1995). Languages The following classification of the Aru languages is from ''Glottolog'' 4.0 (2019), and is arranged according to Hughes (1987: 96) since the Aru languages form an interconnected linkage or dialect chain: * Ujir- Kola- Kompane ** Ujir ** Kola- Kompane *Central Aru **Lola ** Dobel- Koba ** Lorang **Manombai *West Tarangan *East Tarangan * Karey- Barakai *Batuley Batuley (Gwatle lir) is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Mariri; Hughes (1987) estimates that around 80% of lexical items are shared. The language's name comes from the Gwatle island (Batuley in Indonesi ...- Mariri References {{austronesian-lang-stub ...
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Amol Language
Amol, also Alatil or Aru, is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. The names Amol and Aru are both slightly erroneous. Speakers of the language call their language Mol (not Amol), while speakers of surrounding languages call the language Oru (not Aru). Matthew S. Dryer Matthew S. Dryer is a professor of linguistics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, State University of New York at Buffalo who has worked in typology, syntax, and language documentation. He is best known for his resear ... of the University at Buffalo has collected data on Mol. References Palei languages Languages of Sandaun Province {{papuan-lang-stub ...
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Guhu-Samane Language
Guhu-Samane, also known as ''Bia, Mid-Waria, Muri, Paiawa, Tahari'', is a divergent Trans–New Guinea language that is related to the Binanderean family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). The divergence of Guhu-Samane from other Binanderean languages may be due to extensive historical contact with Oceanic languages such as Numbami.Bradshaw, Joel (2017). Evidence of contact between Binanderean and Oceanic languages. ''Oceanic Linguistics'' 56:395–414. Dialects Smallhorn (2011:131) gives the following dialects. *Kipu (most widely spoken) *Bapi *Garaina *Sekare *Sinaba The dialect differences are principally lexical, but two voiced obstruent An obstruent () is a speech sound such as , , or that is formed by ''obstructing'' airflow. Obstruents contrast with sonorants, which have no such obstruction and so resonate. All obstruents are consonants, but sonorants include vowels as well as ...s also show regular variants. The coronal obstruent is realized as /dz/ upri ...
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