Tarangan language

Tarangan
Tarangan
Region	Aru Islands
Native speakers	(10,300 cited 1987)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Aru Tarangan; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; tre – East Tarangan; txn – West Tarangan

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 (16th ed., 2009)
West Tarangan at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

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[e16-1] East Tarangan at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
West Tarangan at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

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