Piru Bay languages

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Piru Bay
Geographic
distribution
Seram ?
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The Piru Bay languages are a group of twenty

Seram, Indonesia
. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

Classification

The languages are as follows:[1][2]

Many of the Piru Bay languages form a dialect continuum.

References

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Piru Bay". Glottolog 4.3.
  2. ^ James T. Collins. 1983. The historical relationships of the languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics: Series D-47.)