Aru languages explained

See also: Aymaran languages.

Aru
Region:	Aru Islands, Indonesia
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:^{[1] [2]}

• Aru
  • Ujir-Kola-Kompane
    • Ujir
    • Kola-Kompane
  • Central Aru
    • Lola
    • Dobel-Koba
    • Lorang
    • Manombai
  • West Tarangan
  • East Tarangan
  • Karey-Barakai
  • Batuley-Mariri

Notes and References

1. Web site: Glottolog . 4.0 . Hammarström . Harald . Forkel . Robert . Haspelmath . Martin . 2019 . Jena . Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Book: Hughes, Jock . 1987 . The languages of Kei, Tanimbar and Aru: Lexicostatistic classification . Soenjono Dardjowidjojo . Miscellaneous studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, part 9 . NUSA 27 . 71–111 . Jakarta . Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya . http://sealang.net/archives/nusa/pdf/nusa-v27-p71-111.pdf.