West Makian language

West Makian
Native to Indonesia
Region North Maluku, islands of Ternate and some areas of Halmahera.
Native speakers
 (12,000 cited 1977)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mqs
Glottolog west2600[2]

West Makian (also known as Moi) is the most divergent of the West Papuan languages of Halmahera. It is spoken on the coast near Makian Island, and on the western half of that island.

West Makian has been strongly influenced by a neighboring Austronesian language or languages, to the extent that it was once classified as Austronesian, as the East Makian language (Taba) still is. A brief description of the language can be found in Voorhoeve (1982).[3]

References

  1. ↑ West Makian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Makian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Voorhoeve, C.L. 1982. The West Makian language, North Moluccas, Indonesia: A fieldwork report. The Makian Languages and their Neighbors, ed. by C.L. Voorhoeve, 1-74. (Pacific Linguistics D-46). Canberra: Australian National University.
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