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Selaru languages

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Geographic distribution
  
Maluku Islands

Glottolog
  
sout2890

Subdivisions
  
Selaru Seluwasan

Linguistic classification
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP (Central–Eastern) Selaru

The Selaru languages are a pair of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of Indonesia. They are not closely related, being 56% lexically similar (Ethnologue).

References

Selaru languages Wikipedia