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,
Indonesia. None of the languages have more than about twenty thousand speakers, and several are endangered with extinction.
^James T. Collins. 1983. The historical relationships of the languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (Pacific Linguistics: Series D-47.)
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