Hukumina language

Hukumina
Bambaa
Native toIndonesia
RegionBuru Island, Moluccas
Extinctafter 1989[1][2]
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3huw
Glottologhuku1237
ELPHukumina

Hukumina (also called Bambaa[4]) is an extinct Austronesian language recently spoken in the northwest of Buru Island in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It had one native speaker in 1989.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry". Jakarta Globe. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Did you know Hukumina is critically endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
  3. ↑ Karenisa, Kity (2024). "Bahasa Punah di Maluku". kantorbahasamaluku.kemdikbud.go.id (in Indonesian). Kantor Bahasa Provinsi Maluku. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  4. ↑ "Hukumina". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 11 September 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  5. ↑ Grimes, "Buru (Masarete)", in Tsuchida, ed., 1995, Comparative Austronesian Dictionary