Nunusaku languages

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The Nunusaku languages are a group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken on and around the island of Seram, Indonesia.[1][2] None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

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Nunusaku
AmbonSeram
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Indonesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Proto-languageProto-Nunusaku
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Glottolognunu1252
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The proto-language, Proto-Nunusaku, merged Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *z/*d as *d, and *l/*R/*j as *l.

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