Ujir language

Ujir
Native toIndonesia
RegionAru Islands
Native speakers
1,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3udj
Glottologujir1237
ELPUjir

Ujir is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia, spoken in the villages of Ujir and Samang in northwestern Aru. As of 2015, it is highly endangered, since it is only spoken by a small fraction of the population of the two villages.[2]

  1. ^ Ujir at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Schapper, Antoinette (2015). "Neuter gender in the languages of Aru". Wacana. 16: 1–26. doi:10.17510/wjhi.v16i1.364. S2CID 145126612.