Tarangan language
| Tarangan | |
|---|---|
| Region | Aru Islands |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2011)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: tre – East Tarangan txn – West Tarangan |
| Glottolog |
east2465 (East)[2]west2538 (West)[3] |
Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands. East and West Tarangan are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.
References
- ↑ East Tarangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
West Tarangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "East Tarangan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "West Tarangan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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