Piru Bay languages
{{Short description|Language family}}
{{Infobox language family
|name=Piru Bay
|region=Ambon and Seram, Indonesia
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
|fam3=Central-Eastern MP
|fam4=Central Maluku ?
|fam5=East Central Maluku
|fam6=Seram ?
|fam7=Nunusaku
|glotto=piru1243
|glottorefname=Piru Bay
}}
The Piru Bay languages are a group of twenty Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken on Ambon Island and around Piru Bay on the island of Seram, Indonesia. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.
Classification
The languages are as follows:{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Piru Bay| work = Glottolog 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/piru1243}}James T. Collins. 1983. The historical relationships of the languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics: Series D-47.)
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- Piru Bay
- West Piru Bay (Seram and Ambon islands)
- Asilulu
- Hoamoal: Luhu (Piru), Manipa; Larike-Wakasihu, Boano
- East Piru Bay
- Sepa, Teluti
- Solehua
- Paulohi
- Seram Straits
- Kaibobo
- Ambon: Hitu, Tulehu; Laha, Seit-Kaitetu
- Uliase (Lease Islands)
- Kamarian
- Hatuhaha
- Haruku
- Saparuan
- {{anchor|Elpaputi}}Elpaputi: Amahai, Nusa Laut
- Saparua: Saparua, Latu
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Many of the Piru Bay languages form a dialect continuum. The Ambon branch should not to be confused with distantly related Ambonese Malay, which is also often simply known as Ambonese.
References
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{{Central Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
{{Seram Island}}
Category:Languages of Indonesia
Category:Central Maluku languages
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