Tidore language
| Tidore | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | North Maluku, islands of Tidore, Maitara, Mare, northern half of Moti, and some areas of west coast of Halmahera. |
| Coordinates | 0°1′N 127°44′E / 0.017°N 127.733°E |
Native speakers |
unknown (26,000 cited 1981)[1] 20,000 L2 speakers (1981)[2] |
|
West Papuan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tvo |
| Glottolog |
tido1248[3] |
Tidore of eastern Indonesia is a language centered on the island of Tidore but also spoken in neighboring Halmahera. A Papuan language, it is unlike most languages in Indonesia which belong to the Austronesian language family. It, and the similar Ternate language, appear to be related to languages of the Bird's Head peninsula in Papua.[4]
It is closely related to Ternate.
References
- ↑ Tidore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Tidore at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tidore". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul (2009). "Tidore - A language of Indonesia (Maluku)". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International.