Hitu language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Hitu

|states=Indonesia

|region=Ambon Island, Maluku

|speakers=16,000

|date=1987

|ref = e25

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern

|fam4=Central Maluku ?

|fam5=East Central Maluku

|fam6=Seram ?

|fam7=Nunusaku

|fam8=Piru Bay

|fam9=East

|fam10=Seram Straits

|fam11=Ambon

|iso3=htu

|glotto=hitu1239

|glottorefname=Hitu

}}

Hitu is an Austronesian language of the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Hitu is the name of a village; each of the villages, Wakal, Morela, Mamala, Hitu, and Hila, are said to have their own dialect.