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.