Riung language
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Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia
| Riung | |
|---|---|
| Far Eastern Manggarai | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Flores |
| Ethnicity | Manggarai |
Native speakers | (14,000 cited 1981)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | riu |
| Glottolog | riun1237 |
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
[edit]- ^ Riung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading
[edit]- Schmidt, Christopher K. (2013). Morphosyntax of Wangka, a Dialect of Rembong-Riung (PhD thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/103420.
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