Ujir is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern

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, spoken in the villages of Ujir and Samang in northwestern Aru. , it is highly

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, since it is only spoken by a small fraction of the population of the two villages.

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Aru languages Languages of Indonesia Endangered Austronesian languages {{au-lang-stub