Nunusaku languages

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Nunusaku
AmbonSeram
Geographic
distribution
Indonesia
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Glottolog nunu1252

The Nunusaku languages are a group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken on and around the island of Seram. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

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