Batuley language

Batuley
Batuley
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Aru Islands
Native speakers	3,600 (2011)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Aru Batuley; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bay
Glottolog	batu1258

Batuley (Gwatle lir) is a language spoken on the Aru Islands of eastern Indonesia. It is close to Mariri; Hughes (1987) estimates that around 80% of lexical items are shared. The language's name comes from the Gwatle island (Batuley in Indonesian), which the Batuley consider their homeland (Daigle (2015)).

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