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Central Maluku languages

Central Maluku
Geographic
distribution
Maluku Islands (Indonesia)
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
  • Teor-Kur
  • West
  • East
Glottolog cent2254

The Central Maluku languages are a putative group of fifty Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon, Kei, and the Sula Islands. None of the languages have as many as fifty thousand speakers, and several are extinct.

The traditional components of Central Maluku are the Sula, Buru, and East Central Maluku languages, plus the Ambelau isolate.

The following classification of the Central Maluku languages below is from Collins (1983:20, 22) and (1986).



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