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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Indonesia (Maluku) > Tarangan, East

Tarangan, East

A language of Indonesia (Maluku)

ISO 639-3tre

Population  3,780 (1987 Maluku Dalam Angka).
Region  South Maluku, south Aru Islands, Tarangan Island east coast, and villages in Maikor Strait (Sungai Maikor). 13 villages.
Language map  Indonesia, Southern Maluku
Alternate names   East Trangan, Tarangan Timur
Dialects  Lexical similarity: 71% with West Tarangan [txn].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Central Malayo-Polynesian, Aru
Language use  Vigorous.
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%.
Comments  Christian, Muslim.