Region Aru Islands | Native speakers 14,000 (2011) | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Nuclear MP
(Central–Eastern)
Aru
Tarangan ISO 639-3 Either:
tre – East Tarangan
txn – West Tarangan Glottolog east2465 (East)
west2538 (West) | ||
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
Tarangan language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA