Hitu language

Hitu
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Ambon Island, Maluku
Native speakers	unknown (16,000 cited 1987)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seram ? Nunusaku Piru Bay East Seram Straits Ambon Hitu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`htu`
Glottolog	`hitu1239`^[2]

Hitu is an Austronesian spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Hitu is actually the name of a village; each of the villages, Wakal, Morela, Mamala, Hitu, and Hila, are said to have their own dialect.

References

↑ Hitu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hitu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.