Hitu language explained

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.