Selaru languages

Selaru
Geographic
distribution
Maluku Islands
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
Glottolog sout2890[1]

The Selaru languages are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. They are not closely related, being 56% lexically similar (Ethnologue).

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Southern Southeast Maluku". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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