Hukumina language explained

Hukumina
Nativename:Bambaa[1]
Region:Buru Island, Moluccas
State:Indonesia
Extinct:by 2024
Ref:[2]
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Central–Eastern
Fam4:Central Maluku
Fam5:Sula–Buru
Fam6:Buru
Dia1:Bara
Dia2:Palumata[3]
Iso3:huw
Glotto:huku1237
Glottorefname:Hukumina

Hukumina (also called Bambaa)[1] is an extinct Austronesian language recently spoken in the northwest of Buru Island in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It had one native speaker in 1989.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hukumina. dead. 11 September 2019. LINGUIST List. 6 November 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20190911091618/http://www.multitree.org/codes/huw.html.
  2. Web site: 11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry. 6 November 2024. Jakarta Globe. 8 March 2024.
  3. Web site: Bahasa Punah di Maluku. Kity. Karenisa. Kantor Bahasa Provinsi Maluku. kantorbahasamaluku.kemdikbud.go.id. id. 2024. 2024-07-08.
  4. Grimes, "Buru (Masarete)", in Tsuchida, ed., 1995, Comparative Austronesian Dictionary