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Branch of Austronesian 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.
Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but
Taba and
Buli are fairly well attested.
They are not related to the
North Halmahera languages , which are notable for being non-Austronesian. However,
Ternatan influence is considerable, a legacy of the historical dominance of the
Ternate Sultanate .
[1]
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):
[2]
South Halmahera
East Makian – Gane
Gane (Gimán; dialect: Saketa)
Taba (East Makian, Makian Dalam; dialects: Kayoa, Southeast Makian)
Buli languages
Gebe (dialect: Minyaifuin)
References
^ Teljeur, Dirk (1990),
The symbolic system of the Giman of South Halmahera , Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 142 (2019, e-book ed.), Dordrecht–Providence: Foris Publications, p. 17,
doi :
10.1515/9783111672380 ,
ISBN
978-3-11-167238-0 ,
OCLC
1110710205
^ 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
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status