Selaru is a member of the Central-Eastern branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages. It has about 8,000 speakers in the Tanimbar Islands in the Maluku Tenggara Barat Regency of Maluku Province in the south of Malaysia. It is spoken mainly on the island of Selaru, particularly in the villages of Kandar, Lingat, Namtabung, Eliasa, Werain and Fursuy, and in the village of Latdalam on Yamdena Island. There are also some speakers of Selaru on the islands of Matakus, Nus Wotar and Tenaman and Mitak, and in Saumlaki on South Tanimbar Island, and in Ambon on Ambon Island.
Selaru is also known as Salaru. It is written with the Latin script, and there is a grammar of the language and translations of parts of the Bible.
Download an alphabet chart for Selaru (Excel)
Tia Enus neke, irkye ita anina Tulisama Botanke. Yal wamfwetke ania Alalyena Endaminke. Rasa ma klenke soso, desikeo, wamfwetke mededana i. Wamfwetke mdedana i ma kyarasy tia wasia hulosew mana idur haf.
In Enus, there lived a man named Tulisama Botan. He married a woman named Alalyena Endamin. They had been married for some time, and then the woman was expecting. The woman was expecting and it approached her time to give birth.
Source: An Introduction To The Grammar Of Selaru by David Forrest Coward
Information about Selaru | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Selaru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selaru_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/slu
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/slu
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 12.12.22. Last modified: 13.12.22
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