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Auberon Waugh
Language family
| Selaru | |
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| Geographic distribution | Indonesia (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.
References
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| Central Maluku * |
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| Flores–Lembata |
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| Sumba–Flores |
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| Timoric * |
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| Malayo-Polynesian |
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Credit: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selaru_languages