Tulehu language

Tulehu
Native to Indonesia
Region Ambon Island, Maluku
Native speakers
(19,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tlu
Glottolog tule1244[2]

Tulehu (also known as Souw Aman Teru) is an Austronesian spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Tulehuis actually the name of a village; each of the villages, Tulehu, Liang, Tengah-Tengah, and Tial, is said to have its own dialect.

References

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