Waru

WRU

threatened

Alternate Names: Mapute, Mopute

Dialects: Lalomerui, Waru. Lexical similarity: 86% with the Waru and Lalomerui dialects, 79% with Mekongga and other Tolaki , dialects, 70% with Rahambuu , and Kodeoha ,, 54% with the Mori , or , and Bungku , groups.

Genealogy:

Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Celebic
Eastern
Southeastern
Bungku-Tolaki
Western
West Coast

Demographics: 350 (Mead 1999).

Language Use: Under pressure from larger neighboring languages and from Indonesian [ind] (Wurm 2007).

Nation of Origin: Indonesia

Other Comments: Muslim.