| Buru | |
|---|---|
| li fuk Buru | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Buru Island (Maluku) |
Native speakers | 45,000 (2009)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mhs |
| Glottolog | buru1303 |
Buru or Buruese (Buru: li fuk Buru[2]) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Central Maluku branch. In 1991 it was spoken by approximately 45,000 Buru people who live on the Indonesian island of Buru (Indonesian: Pulau Buru).[3] It is also preserved in the Buru communities on Ambon and some other Maluku Islands, as well as in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and in the Netherlands.[1]
The most detailed study of Buru language was conducted in the 1980s by Australian missionaries and ethnographers Charles E. Grimes and Barbara Dix Grimes.[4][5][6]
- ^ a b Buru at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Grimes, Barbara Dix (2006). "Knowing Your Place: Representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape" (PDF). In Fox, James J. (ed.). The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Canberra: ANU Press. doi:10.22459/PPP.09.2006. ISBN 9781920942861.
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