Kaibobo language

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Kaibobo
Native to Indonesia
RegionPiru Bay, Seram Island, Malukus
Native speakers
(500 cited 1983) [1]
Dialects
  • Kaibobo
  • Hatusua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kzb
Glottolog kaib1244 [2]

Kaibobo is an Austronesian spoken in the Malukus of eastern Indonesia. Kaibobo and Hatusua dialects are distinct.

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The Piru Bay languages are a group of twenty Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken on Ambon Island and around Piru Bay on the island of Seram. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.

References

  1. ↑ Kaibobo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaibobo". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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