South Halmahera languages
The South Halmahera languages are the branch of Austronesian languages found along the southeast coast of the island of Halmahera in the Indonesian province of North Maluku. Irarutu is spoken in the east of the Bomberai Peninsula in West Papua province.
| South Halmahera | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Maluku Islands |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | None east2439 (East Makian–Gane)[1] cent2270 (Buli)[2] |
Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Taba and Buli are fairly well attested.
Classification
The South Halmahera languages are listed below according to Glottolog 4.0's classification, with alternate names and dialects listed from Kamholz (2014: 17):[3]
- East Makian – Gane
- Buli languages
- Gebe (dialect: Minyaifuin)
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "East Makian–Gane". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central–Eastern South Halmahera". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Kamholz, David (2014). Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and change in South Halmahera–West New Guinea. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zg8b1vd
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