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Central Maluku languages

New Guinea and Pacific Language Families

The Central Maluku languages are a proposed subgroup of the Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, comprising around fifty languages spoken principally on the Indonesian islands of Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands. None of the languages has as many as fifty thousand speakers, and several are extinct.

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Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands, Indonesia 1
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1. Wikipedia: Central Maluku languages
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comprises around fifty languages spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon and the Sula Islands, Indonesia.
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