Tarangan language

Tarangan
Rau Jarjar
Native toIndonesia
RegionAru Islands
Native speakers
14,000 (2011)
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tre – East Tarangan
txn – West Tarangan
Glottologeast2465  East
west2538  West

Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.