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Mariri language

Mariri (Mairiri) is an Austronesian language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Batuley.

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Mariri
Native toIndonesia
RegionAru Islands
Native speakers
280 (2011)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3mqi
Glottologmari1430

Mariri (Mairiri) is an Austronesian language2 spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Batuley.3

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References

  1. Mariri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Mariri". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Daigle, Benjamin T. (2015). A grammar sketch of Batuley: An Austronesian language of Aru, eastern Indonesia (PDF) (M.A. thesis). LOT (Leiden University). hdl:1887/43444. Retrieved 11 May 2019.