Riung language

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.

Riung
Far Eastern Manggarai
Native toIndonesia
RegionFlores
EthnicityManggarai
Native speakers
(14,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3riu
Glottologriun1237[2]

References

  1. Riung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Riung". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Further reading

  • Schmidt, Christopher K. (2013). Morphosyntax of Wangka, a Dialect of Rembong-Riung (PhD thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/103420.
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