Tidore language

Tidore is a North Halmahera language of Indonesia. The language is centered on the island of Tidore, but it is also spoken in some areas of the neighbouring Halmahera. It is unlike most languages in Indonesia which belong to the Austronesian language family. Tidore and other North Halmahera languages are perhaps related to languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula, West Papua.[4][5]

Tidore
Native toIndonesia
RegionNorth Maluku, islands of Tidore, Maitara, Mare, northern half of Moti, and some areas of west coast of Halmahera
Native speakers
(26,000 cited 1981)[1]
20,000 L2 speakers (1981)[2]
West Papuan
Language codes
ISO 639-3tvo
Glottologtido1248[3]
Tidore
Location in Southeast Asia
Coordinates: 0°1′N 127°44′E

It is closely related to Ternate, of which it is sometimes considered a dialect.[6]

References

  1. Tidore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Tidore at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tidore". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Lewis, M. Paul (2009). "Tidore - A language of Indonesia (Maluku)". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International.
  5. Senft, Gunter; Linguistics, Australian National University Pacific (2008). Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages. Pacific Linguistics, Research School Of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
  6. "Ternate - Peta Bahasa" (in Indonesian).
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