Aru languages

Aru
Geographic
distribution
Aru Islands, Indonesia
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Language codes
Glottologaruu1241

The Aru languages are a group of a dozen Austronesian languages spoken on the Aru Islands in Indonesia. None are spoken by more than ten thousand people. Although geographically close to Central Maluku languages, they are not part of that group linguistically (Ross 1995).