Piru Bay languages

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Piru Bay
Geographic
distribution		Indonesia: Ambon and Seram
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
    • Central-Eastern MP
      • Central Maluku ?
        • East Central Maluku
          • Seram ?
            • Nunusaku
              • Piru Bay
Glottologpiru1243

The Piru Bay languages are a group of twenty Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken on Ambon Island and around on the island of Seram. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

Classification[]

The languages are as follows:[1][2]

  • West Piru Bay (Seram and Ambon islands)
    • Asilulu
    • Hoamoal: Luhu (Piru), Manipa; Larike-Wakasihu, Boano
  • East Piru Bay
    • Sepa, Teluti
    • Solehua
      • Paulohi
      • Seram Straits
        • Kaibobo
        • Ambon: Hitu, Tulehu; Laha, Seit-Kaitetu
        • Uliase (Lease Islands)
          • Kamarian
          • Hatuhaha
            • Haruku
            • Saparuan
              • Elpaputi: Amahai, Nusa Laut
              • Saparua: Saparua, Latu

Many of the Piru Bay languages form a dialect continuum.

References[]

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Piru Bay". Glottolog 4.3.
  2. ^ James T. Collins. 1983. The historical relationships of the languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics: Series D-47.)
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