Uruangnirin language
Uruangnirin is a minor Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Tarak and Faor in the Sebakor Bay, West Papua. Some Kalamang people from the neighboring island of Karas speak it as a second language.[3] The languages most closely related to Uruangnirin are Onin and Sekar of the Bomberai Peninsula.
| Uruangnirin | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West coast Bomberai Peninsula |
Native speakers | (400 cited 1983)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | urn |
| Glottolog | urua1244[2] |
  Uruangnirin  Uruangnirin | |
| Coordinates: 3.45°S 132.75°E | |
Uruangnirin is an endangered language as the younger generations of its speakers are shifting to Papuan Malay, the local lingua franca, as well as Indonesian, the standard national language.
References
- Uruangnirin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Uruangnirin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Visser, Eline. (2016). A grammar sketch of Kalamang with a focus on phonetics and phonology. Master's thesis, University of Oslo.
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