Selaru language

Selaru
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Tanimbar Islands
Native speakers	8,000 (2001)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Selaru languages Selaru
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`slu`
Glottolog	`sela1259`^[2]

Selaru is an Austronesian language of Selaru and Yamdena, in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It is not close to Seluwasan, its nearest relative.

References

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