Tarangan language

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The Tarangan language is an Austronesian language spoken in the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia, known for its distinct dialects and role in the region’s local communication.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo other Aru languages
country Indonesia
documentationStatus described in several linguistic surveys of Aru languages
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode tara1327
glottologName Tarangan NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Tarangan NERFINISHED
hasDialect East Tarangan NERFINISHED
West Tarangan NERFINISHED
hasDialectalVariation significant differences between East Tarangan and West Tarangan
hasLinguisticArea Aru Islands linguistic area NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature affixation for verb morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory typical of Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
hasSyntacticFeature basic SVO word order
ISO639-3Code txn
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
region eastern Indonesia
role local lingua franca in parts of the Aru Islands
spokenBy Tarangan-speaking communities of the Aru Islands
spokenIn Aru Islands NERFINISHED
Maluku province NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
usedFor local communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Aru languages hasMember Tarangan language
Aru languages hasMember Tarangan language
this entity surface form: West Tarangan language
Aru languages hasMember Tarangan language
this entity surface form: East Tarangan language