Alternate Names: Ilputih, Opotai, Tutunohan
Dialects: Ilputih, Lurang, Welemur. Welemur dialect has no remaining speakers. Lexical similarity: 93% among dialects, 79% with Perai ,, 74% with Tugun ,, 69% with Ili’uun ,, 57% with Galolen ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 150 (Hinton 2000).
Language Use: Influence from Galolen [gal] and Indonesian [ind] (Wurm 2007). Ilputih dialect speakers also use Galolen [gal]. Also use Ambonese Malay [abs].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%.
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Christian.