Aruek language

Aruek
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province
Native speakers
none (2010)
Torricelli
  • (unclassified)

    • Aruek
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aur
Glottolog arue1240[1]

Aruek is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. 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

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Aruek". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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