Haruku language

Haruku
Native to Indonesia
Region Haruku Island, Moluccas
Native speakers
unknown (18,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 hrk
Glottolog haru1244[2]

Haruku is an Austronesian spoken on Haruku Island, just east of Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain around Seram Island.

Each of the villages, Hulaliu, Pelauw, Kailolo, and Rohomoni, is said to have its own dialect.

References

  1. Haruku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Haruku". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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