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Geographic distribution | Aru Islands, Indonesia |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
Glottolog | aruu1241 |
The Aru languages are a group of a dozen Austronesian languages spoken on the Aru IslandsinIndonesia. 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).
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 linkageordialect chain:[1][2]
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