Riung language

Riung
Far Eastern Manggarai
Native to Indonesia
Region Flores
Ethnicity Manggarai
Native speakers
 (14,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 riu
Glottolog riun1237[2]

Riung is a language of central Flores, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. It has sometimes been considered a dialect of Manggarai to the west, but is only marginally intelligible with it.

References

  1. ↑ Riung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Riung". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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