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    Buru (formerly spelled Boeroe, Boro, or Bouru) is the third largest island within the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It lies between the Banda Sea to the...
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  • Buru or Buruese (Buru: li fuk Buru) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Central Maluku branch. In 1991 it was spoken by approximately 45,000 Buru people...
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  • The Buru–Sula languages are a group of Austronesian languages (geographically Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages) spoken on the Buru and Sula...
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    Buru people (Indonesian: Suku Buru) is an ethnic group mostly living on Indonesian island Buru, as well as on some other Maluku Islands. They also call...
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  • Look up Buru or buru in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buru is an island in Indonesia. Buru may also refer to: Buru Island or Turnagain Island (Queensland)...
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  • The Buru Quartet or Buru Tetralogy (Indonesian: Tetralogi Buru) is a literary tetralogy written by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer at Buru Island...
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    More than 700 living languages are spoken in Indonesia. This figure indicates that Indonesia has about 10% of the world's languages, establishing its reputation...
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    Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian...
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    Pramoedya Ananta Toer (category Articles with Indonesian-language sources (id))
    the Indonesian new government. During the many years in which he suffered imprisonment and house arrest (in Jakarta after his imprisonment in Buru), he...
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    Babirusa (category Articles containing Indonesian-language text)
    deer-pigs (Indonesian: babi rusa), are a genus, Babyrousa, in the swine family found in the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Togian, Sula and Buru. All members...
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  • extinct Austronesian language recently spoken in the northwest of Buru Island in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. Grimes, "Buru (Masarete)", in Tsuchida...
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  • Kayeli (Indonesian: Bahasa Kayeli) is an extinct Austronesian language once used by the Kayeli people of the Indonesian island Buru. Two dialects were...
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  • Manipa is an Austronesian language of eastern Indonesia. It is primarily spoken in the island of Manipa, which is located between Buru island and Seram island...
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  • Indo-Aryan language of India and Nepal Rana, a dialect of Kutang, a Sino-Tibetan language of Nepal Rana, a dialect of Buru, an Austronesian language of Indonesia...
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    Wayback Machine (in Indonesian) (Law of the Indonesian Republic number 32 of the year 2008 on the establishment of Kabupaten Buru Selatan in the Province...
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    the local languages belong to the Austronesian language family, although a significant number of people, particularly in eastern Indonesia, speak unrelated...
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  • the Indonesian island Ambelau (Indonesian: Pulau Ambelau) and most others in the village Wae Tawa of the nearby island Buru (Indonesian: Pulau Buru). The...
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  • imprisoned for 14 years, mostly on the remote island of Buru. The book was republished in Indonesia in 1998 after the fall of the Suharto. The book was released...
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    The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian Archipelago (Indonesian: Kepulauan Indonesia) or Nusantara, may refer either to the islands composing...
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  • comprises around fifty languages spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon, Kei, and the Sula Islands. None of the languages have as many as fifty thousand...
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    Bomberai Peninsula. Aru languages, spoken on the Aru Islands in Indonesia. Central Maluku languages, spoken principally on the Seram, Buru, Ambon, Kei, and the...
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  • Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken...
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  • while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia. The story was first narrated verbally to Pramoedya's fellow prisoners...
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    Ambelau (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
    Islands of Indonesia. The island forms an administrative district (Indonesian: Kecamatan Ambalau) which is part of the South Buru Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten...
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  • part of Indonesian island Buru (Indonesian: Pulau Buru). It is also preserved among the small Lisela community on the Ambon Island. The language belongs...
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  • this region are Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor, Buru, and Seram. The numerically most important languages are Nggahi Mbojo (Bimanese), Manggarai of western...
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    produced on Buru. Indonesia portal Maluku culture Governor of Maluku List of rulers of Maluku Folklore of the Moluccas "Moluccas | islands, Indonesia | Britannica"...
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    The Buru green pigeon (Treron aromaticus) is a pigeon in the genus Treron. It is found in the forests of Buru in Indonesia. Many authorities split the...
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  • other areas foreign to Indonesia besides using them in Java itself. The Japanese brought Javanese women as comfort women to Buru island, and Kalimantan...
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    Kayeli people (category Articles containing Indonesian-language text)
    their native language by the end of the 20th century as they began to adopt other indigenous Buru languages or the Indonesian language. Ethnogenesis...
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