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.