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Saparua language

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Native to
  
Indonesia

ISO 639-3
  
spr

Native speakers
  
(10,200 cited 1989)

Glottolog
  
sapa1251

Region
  
Seram and Saparua Islands, Moluccas

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seram ? Nunusaku Piru Bay East Seram Straits Uliase (Lease) Saparua–Latu Saparua

Saparua is an Austronesian spoken in the Mulukus of eastern Indonesia. Dialects are diverse, and Latu might be included as one.

References

Saparua language Wikipedia