Riung language

Riung
Far Eastern Manggarai
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Flores
Ethnicity	Riung and Baar
Native speakers	(14,000 cited 1981) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Sumba–Flores Ende–Manggarai Manggarai Riung
Language codes
ISO 639-3	riu
Glottolog	riun1237

Riung is a language of central Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It has sometimes been considered a dialect of Manggarai to the west, but is only marginally intelligible with it.

References

1. Riung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Further reading

• Schmidt, Christopher K. (2013). Morphosyntax of Wangka, a Dialect of Rembong-Riung (PhD thesis). Rice University. hdl: 1911/103420 .