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Ujir
Native to Indonesia
Region Aru Islands
Native speakers
1,000 (2011) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 udj
Glottolog ujir1237
ELP Ujir

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]

References

  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.