Three Rivers languages

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Three Rivers
Geographic distribution:	Indonesia
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seram ? Nunusaku Three Rivers
Subdivisions:	—

The Three Rivers languages are a group of ten Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on the island of Seram. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

Classification

According to Ethnologue 16 (revised*), the languages are as follows:

Yalahatan
Wemale
Amalumute: Hulung, Loun, Ulat Inai (Alune, Naka'ela), Lisabata-Nuniali

*In 2011, the two Wemale dialects were merged, Piru turned out to be a dialect of Luhu, in another branch, and Horuru turned out to be Yalahatan.

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