Aru languages

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the South American languages, see Aymara languages .

The Aru languages are a group of Central Malayo Polynesian languages ​​spoken in the Aru Islands .

This includes the following languages ​​(number of speakers in thousands): Barakai (4 T), Batuley (4 T), Dobel (7 T), Karey (1 T), Koba (0.5 T), Kola (8 T), Kompane (0.3 T), Lola (1 T), Lorang (0.3 T), Manombai (Wokam) (8 T), Tarangan (10 T), Ujir, Mariri.

literature

• Ernst Kausen : The language families of the world. Part 2: Africa - Indo-Pacific - Australia - America. Buske, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-656-8 , pp. 512-583.

Web links

• Ernst Kausen: The classification of the Malayo-Polynesian languages ​​within Austronesian. (DOC; 312 kB)