Uruangnirin is an Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Tarak and Faor in the Sebakor Bay, West Papua. Some Kalamang people from the neighboring island of Karas speak it as a second language.Visser, Eline. (2016). A grammar sketch of Kalamang with a focus on phonetics and phonology. Master's thesis, University of Oslo. The languages most closely related to Uruangnirin are Onin and Sekar of the Bomberai Peninsula.
Uruangnirin is an endangered language as the younger generations of its speakers are shifting to Papuan Malay, the local lingua franca, as well as Indonesian, the standard national language. It is spoken by about 400 people in the four villages of Tarak, Tuberwasak, Faur, and Kiaba, which are located in the Karas Islands.
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