Aruek is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005). Dryer (2024),Dryer, Matthew S. 2024. Towards a genealogical classification of Torricelli languages. Unpublished manuscript. as cited in Drinfield (2024), classifies it as a Kombioic language.
There are no longer any speakers in the one village where it was spoken and people of that village say the language is now extinct.
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