Aru languages

{{short description|Subgroup of the Austronesian language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Aru

|region=Indonesia (Aru Islands)

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern

|glotto=aruu1241

|glottorefname=Aru

}}

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:{{cite web |url=https://glottolog.org |title=Glottolog |version=4.0 |editor1-last=Hammarström |editor1-first=Harald |editor2-last=Forkel |editor2-first=Robert |editor3-last=Haspelmath |editor3-first=Martin |date=2019 |location=Jena |publisher=Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History}}{{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Jock |year=1987 |chapter=The languages of Kei, Tanimbar and Aru: Lexicostatistic classification |editor=Soenjono Dardjowidjojo |title=Miscellaneous studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, part 9 |series=NUSA 27 |pages=71–111 |location=Jakarta |publisher=Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya |chapter-url=http://sealang.net/archives/nusa/pdf/nusa-v27-p71-111.pdf}}

Aru languages

Languages

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