Nuaulu is a member of the East Central Maluku branch of Malayo-Polynesian language family. It is spoken by about 2,000 people on Seram Island in Maluku Island in eastern Indonesia. Nuaulu has two dialects: North Nuaulu and South Nuaulu. They are classified as two closely-related but separate languages in some sources.
South Nuaulu is also known as Patakai. It is spoken by about 1,000 people in several villages in the district of Amahai in Central Maluku Regency on the south coast of Seram Island. North Nuaulu is spoken by about 1,000 people in the villages of Openg and Rumaholat in the district of North Seram in Central Maluku Regency in the north of Seram Island. Nuaulu can be written with the Latin script.
Download an alphabet chart for Nuaulu (Excel)
Ros iasei na Neipani mamrue Yaio. Sio mataanoe mo sio orueso pan Mukinopu. Ai rei nanae Mukinopu. Reiso rueso pani ano. Oyo ia onate isa rerihoni Matoke ieu inanui tau pumono. O ria mo ohokaso roe nunue isa nene upone oakahuaso. Onai no kamana akahuaso roe nunu upone rei. Oyo nanui on roe osipu poe ohunui.
Rose asked about the Neipani clan who lived at Yaio. At first, they lived in a mukinopu tree. This was a tree called mukinopu. They lived inside of it. An elder from the Matoke clan went calling marsupials inland one night. They came out on the top of a banyan tree and danced the Kahua. They lit their lamps and danced the Kahua up at the top of this banyan tree. Then the marsupials came down from the tree and killed the person calling the marsupials.
Source: Nuaulu phonology. Rosemary A. Bolton. 1989.
Information about Nuaulu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuaulu_language
http://www.language-archives.org/language/nxl
http://www.language-archives.org/language/nni
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/nxl
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Page created: 19.02.25. Last modified: 19.02.25
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