Central Maluku languages
Subgroup of the Austronesian language family
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The Central Maluku languages are a proposed subgroup of the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family which comprises around fifty languages spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands, Indonesia. None of the languages have as many as fifty thousand speakers, and several are extinct.
Geographic
distributionIndonesia (Maluku Islands)
distributionIndonesia (Maluku Islands)
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
- Central–Eastern MP
- Central Maluku
- Central–Eastern MP
Subdivisions
- West
- East
| Central Maluku | |
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| Geographic distribution | Indonesia (Maluku Islands) |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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Classification
The traditional components of Central Maluku are the Sula, Buru, and East Central Maluku languages, plus the Ambelau isolate.
Collins (1983)
The following classification of the Central Maluku languages below is from Collins (1983:20, 22) and (1986).[1][2]
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