Hitu language

Hitu
Native to Indonesia
Region Ambon Island, Maluku
Native speakers
unknown (16,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 htu
Glottolog hitu1239[2]

Hitu is an Austronesian spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Hitu is the name of a village; each of the villages, Wakal, Morela, Mamala, Hitu, and Hila, are said to have their own dialect.

References

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