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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