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Kei is an Austronesian language spoken in a small region of the Moluccas, a province of Indonesia.
Barakai is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands.
Manombai is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands, Indonesia.
Dobel, or Kobro’or, is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands Regency. It is close to Kola.
Kola is one of the Aru languages, spoken in the northernmost part of the Aru Islands, mainly on Kola Island and in the northern and western part of Wokam Island.
Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.
Batuley is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Mariri; Hughes (1987) estimates that around 80% of lexical items are shared. The language's name comes from the Gwatle island, which the Batuley consider their homeland.
Karey (Krei) is an Austronesian language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia.
Koba is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Dobel, though mutual comprehension is low.
Mariri (Mairiri) is an Austronesian language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Batuley.
Ujir is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia, spoken in the villages of Ujir and Samang in northwestern Aru. As of 2015, it is highly endangered, since it is only spoken by a small fraction of the population of the two villages.
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- ↑ Lorang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Hughes, Jock (1987). "The languages of Kei, Tanimbar and Aru: Lexicostatistic classification" (PDF). In Soenjono Dardjowidjojo (ed.). Miscellaneous studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, part 9. NUSA 27. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. pp. 71–111.
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