Hitu language
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Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia
| Hitu | |
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| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Ambon Island, Maluku |
| Ethnicity | Hitu people |
Native speakers | (16,000 cited 1987)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | htu |
| Glottolog | hitu1239 |
Hitu is an Austronesian language of the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island, by the Hitu people.
Hitu is the name of a village; each of the villages, Wakal, Morela, Mamala, Hitu, and Hila, are said to have their own dialect.
References
[edit]- ↑ Hitu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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