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Riung language

Riung is a language of central Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It has sometimes been considered a dialect of Manggarai to the west, but is only marginally intelligible with it.

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Riung
Far Eastern Manggarai
Native toIndonesia
RegionFlores
EthnicityRiung and Baar
Native speakers
(14,000 cited 1981)1
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3riu
Glottologriun1237

Riung is a language of central Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It has sometimes been considered a dialect of Manggarai to the west, but is only marginally intelligible with it.

References

References

  1. Riung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading

Further reading

  • Schmidt, Christopher K. (2013). Morphosyntax of Wangka, a Dialect of Rembong-Riung (PhD thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/103420.