Haruku is an
Austronesian language spoken on
Haruku Island
Haruku Island is an island in Central Maluku Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia - lying east of Ambon Island, off the southern coast of Seram and just west of Saparua. It is administered as a single district, ''Kecamatan Pulau Haruku'', with a ...
, just east of
Ambon Island in eastern
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
, part of a
dialect chain
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
around
Seram Island.
Each of the villages, Hulaliu, Pelauw, Kailolo, and Rohomoni, is said to have its own dialect.
References
Central Maluku languages
Languages of the Maluku Islands
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