Introduction

 

The Tugun language is spoken by approximately 1800 people living on Wetar Island in the Maluku province of Indonesia, in the villages of Masapun, Mahuan, Tomliapat, Ilpokil, Kahilin, Ilway, and Arwala.

This language is classified as: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Timor-Babar, Southwest Maluku, Wetar