Ujir language

Ujir
Ujir
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Aru Islands
Native speakers	1,000 (2011)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Aru Ujir; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	udj
Glottolog	ujir1237
ELP	Ujir

Last updated December 17, 2025

Ujir is an Aru language^[2] spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia, spoken in the villages of Ujir and Samang in northwestern Aru. As of 2015^[update], it is highly endangered, since it is only spoken by a small fraction of the population of the two villages.^[3]

References

↑ Ujir at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ujir". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Schapper, Antoinette (2015). "Neuter gender in the languages of Aru". Wacana. 16: 1–26. doi: 10.17510/wjhi.v16i1.364 . hdl: 20.500.11755/be16760a-47de-4571-a71f-cb77156f58db . S2CID 145126612.

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[e18-1] Ujir at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ujir". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Schapper, Antoinette (2015). "Neuter gender in the languages of Aru". Wacana. 16: 1–26. doi: 10.17510/wjhi.v16i1.364 . hdl: 20.500.11755/be16760a-47de-4571-a71f-cb77156f58db . S2CID 145126612.

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