The Aru languages are a group of a dozen Austronesian languages spoken on the

Aru Islands The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency of Maluku Province, with a land area of . At the 2011 Census the Regency had a ...

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. None are spoken by more than ten thousand people. Although geographically close to

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, they are not part of that group linguistically (Ross 1995).

Languages

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

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: * Ujir-

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Kompane Kola is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency o ...

** Ujir **

*Central Aru **

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- Koba ** Lorang ** Manombai * West Tarangan * East Tarangan * Karey-

Barakai Barakai is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regenc ...

Batuley Batuley (Gwatle lir) is a language spoken on the Aru Islands Regency, Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Mariri language, Mariri; Hughes (1987) estimates that around 80% of lexical items are shared. The language's name comes from t ...

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