Alternate Names: Tarangan Barat, West Trangan
Dialects: North Central Tarangan, Southwestern Tarangan. 2 sharply distinct dialect groups with minor variation within them. Lexical similarity: 70% with East Tarangan , and Manombai ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 7,910 (2011 SIL), increasing. 0 monolinguals. L2 users: Used as L2 on Aru Islands, especially to the south.
Language Use: Vigorous. Home, community. All ages. Positive attitudes. 100% also use Ambonese Malay [abs]. Dobo Malay dialect. 90% also use Indonesian [ind].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%–70%. Literacy rate in L2: 90% in Indonesian [ind]. Poetry. New media. Bible portions: 1997–2008.
Typology: SVO; prepositions; noun head Initial; 2 maximum prefixes, 2 maximum suffixes; clause constituent marked by word order; verb agreement; no passive; 15 lexical consonants; 7 vowel phonemes; nontonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Largest language group in Aru Islands. Christian, Muslim.