Serua language

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Serua
Native toIndonesia
RegionSeram Island
Extinct(date missing)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3srw
Glottologseru1245

Serua is an extinct Austronesian language originally spoken on Serua Island in Maluku, Indonesia. Speakers were relocated to Seram due to volcanic activity on Serua.

References

  1. ^ Serua at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon

Further reading

M. A. Chlenov and Chlenova, Svetlana. 2000. Serua, a vanishing language in Eastern Indonesia. In Nataliya F. Alieva (ed.), Malaysko-indoneziyskiye issledovaniya, XVI, 265-299. Moscow.