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{{Short description|Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Aruek
|nativename=
|states=[[Papua New Guinea]]
|region=[[Sandaun Province]]
|speakers=740
|date=2003
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=[[Torricelli languages|Torricelli]]
|fam2=(unclassified)
|iso3=aur
|glotto=arue1240
|glottorefname=Aruek
}}

'''Aruek''' is a [[Torricelli languages|Torricelli language]] of [[Papua New Guinea]]. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=McCormack |first1=William C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91EhQ6We39MC |title=Approaches to Language: Anthropological Issues |last2=Wurm |first2=Stephen A. |date=2011-06-15 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-080003-6 |pages=259 |language=en}}</ref> 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.{{cn|date=January 2023}}

==References==
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{{Torricelli languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}


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[[Category:Torricelli languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Sandaun Province]]
[[Category:Languages of East Sepik Province]]


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