Irarutu language
Irarutu, Irahutu | |
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Kasira | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Bomberai Peninsula |
Native speakers | unknown (4,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
irh |
Glottolog |
irar1238 [2] |
Irarutu, Irahutu, or Kasira, is an Austronesian language of most of the interior of the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea.
Kuri is very close lexically, but has not been formally classified. Other than this, Irarutu is quite divergent among the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages.
References
- ↑ Irarutu, Irahutu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Irarutu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.