Paulohi

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A language of Indonesia

ISO 639-3
plh
User Population

50 (1982). Very few left (Wurm 2007).

Location

Maluku province: Maluku Tengah regency, Kecamatan and Amahai villages on Seram island, Elpaputih bay west shore.

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Language Status

8b (Nearly extinct).

Classification
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Central Maluku, East, Seram, Nunusaku, Piru Bay, East, Seram Straits, Solehua
Language Use

Shifted to Ambonese Malay [abs].

Language Development

Grammar.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Paulohi
Other Comments

Experienced a severe earthquake and tidal wave in 2009.