The Aru languages are a group of a dozen
Austronesian languages spoken on the
Aru Islands in
Indonesia
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. 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
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'' 4.0 (2019), and is arranged according to Hughes (1987: 96) since the Aru languages form an interconnected
linkage or
dialect chain:
*
Ujir-
Kola
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Kompane
**
Ujir
**
Kola
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-
Kompane
*Central Aru
**
Lola
**
Dobel
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History
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Koba
**
Lorang
**
Manombai
*
West Tarangan
*
East Tarangan
*
Karey-
Barakai
*
Batuley-
Mariri
References
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