Serui-Laut language

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Serui-Laut
Arui
Native to Indonesia
RegionSerui Island,
(Ambai Islands)
Native speakers
(1,200 cited 1987) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 seu
Glottolog seru1244

Serui-Laut, or Arui, is an Austronesian language spoken on Serui Island of the Ambai Islands, in Western New Guinea, Indonesia.

Serui Island is located in Cenderawasih Bay of Papua Province.

It is one of the Yapen languages, in the South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages group.

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References

  1. Serui-Laut at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)