Selaru languages
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Geographic distribution | Maluku Islands |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Glottolog | sout2890 |
The Selaru languages are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. They are not closely related, being 56% lexically similar (Ethnologue).
These languages are Selaru and Seluwasan.
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Central Malayo–Polynesian
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