The Aru languages are a group of a dozen
Austronesian languages spoken on the
Aru Islands
The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency of Maluku Province, with a land area of . At the 2011 Census the Regency had a p ...
in
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 ...
. 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
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute fo ...
'' 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
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Ujir
**
Kola-
Kompane
*Central Aru
**
Lola
Lola may refer to:
Places
* Lolá, a or subdistrict of Panama
* Lola Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
* Lola Prefecture, Guinea
* Lola, Guinea, a town in Lola Prefecture
* Lola Island, in the Solomon Islands
People
* Lol ...
**
Dobel-
Koba
**
Lorang
**
Manombai
Manombai (also known as Wokam) is one of the 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 clos ...
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West Tarangan
Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands Regency, Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two "Tarangan" varieties: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are t ...
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East Tarangan
Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It con ...
*
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 ...
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Mariri
References
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