Uruangnirin language

Uruangnirin
Uruangnirin
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West coast Bomberai Peninsula
Native speakers	(400 cited 1983)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central–Eastern MP Kei–Tanimbar Yamdena–North Bomberai North Bomberai Uruangnirin; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	urn
Glottolog	urua1244
ELP	Uruangnirin
	Location within Western New Guinea Location within Maluku
	Coordinates: 3°27′S 132°45′E / 3.45°S 132.75°E

Uruangnirin is an Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Tarak and Faor in the Sebakor Bay, West Papua. Some Kalamang people from the neighboring island of Karas speak it as a second language.^[2] The languages most closely related to Uruangnirin are Onin and Sekar of the Bomberai Peninsula.

Uruangnirin is an endangered language as the younger generations of its speakers are shifting to Papuan Malay, the local lingua franca, as well as Indonesian, the standard national language. It is spoken by about 400 people in the four villages of Tarak, Tuberwasak, Faur, and Kiaba, which are located in the Karas Islands.^[3]

References

↑ Uruangnirin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Visser, Eline. (2016). A grammar sketch of Kalamang with a focus on phonetics and phonology. Master's thesis, University of Oslo.
↑ Visser, Eline (2026). "A Grammar Sketch of Uruangnirin". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 19 (1): clv–cxcii. doi:10.21313/10524/52559. hdl:10524/52559. ISSN 1836-6821.

[e18-1] Uruangnirin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Visser, Eline. (2016). A grammar sketch of Kalamang with a focus on phonetics and phonology. Master's thesis, University of Oslo.

[3] Visser, Eline (2026). "A Grammar Sketch of Uruangnirin". Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 19 (1): clv–cxcii. doi:10.21313/10524/52559. hdl:10524/52559. ISSN 1836-6821.

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