Nunusaku languages

{{Short description|Language family}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Nunusaku

|altname=Ambon–Seram

|region=Indonesia

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)

|fam3=Central–Eastern MP

|fam4=Central Maluku

|fam5=East Central Maluku

|protoname=Proto-Nunusaku

|glotto=nunu1252

|glottorefname=Nunusaku

}}

The Nunusaku languages{{cite book |last=Zobel |first=Erik |year=2024 |chapter=Historical linguistics of the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages |editor1=Alexander Adelaar |editor2=Antoinette Schapper |title=The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0012 |pages=151–164}} are a group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken on and around the island of Seram, Indonesia. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

The proto-language, Proto-Nunusaku, merged Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *z/*d as *d, and *l/*R/*j as *l.