Aruek is a
Torricelli language of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005).
There are no longer any speakers in the one village where it was spoken and people of that village say the language is now extinct.
References
Torricelli languages
Languages of Sandaun Province
Languages of East Sepik Province
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