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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000-40,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Community Members

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Taba: Description of a South Halmahera Language
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000-40,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

The entire community is fluent in Malay.

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2001

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia

Coordinates

0.364654, 127.423089

Location description

Spoken on the eastern side of Makian Island, Kayoa Island, and the neighboring coast of Halmahera Island.

Government support

No government support.

Institutional support

No institutional support.

Speakers' attitudes

Neutral

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Spoken on the eastern side of Makian Island, Kayoa Island, and the neighboring coast of Halmahera Island.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Malay, specifically North Moluccan Malay

Domains of other languages

Malay is used in all public domains. Taba is being resticted increasingly to private use.

More on context

No data

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

A volcanic eruption on Makian Island, transmigrations, the presence of speakers of several other languages in East Makian speaking areas, and the pressure from these and from Indonesian, have taken their toll. It is receding and falling into disuse in several of its areas, and generally undergoing marked structural changes.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Indonesia: Maluku Province

Coordinates

0.335, 127.380

Location description

Spoken on East Makian Island, Mori Island, Kayoa Island, Ternate Island, Malifut on Halmahera, the west coast of South Halmahera, on Dacau and Obi Islands, etc., in north Maluku.

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Spoken on East Makian Island, Mori Island, Kayoa Island, Ternate Island, Malifut on Halmahera, the west coast of South Halmahera, on Dacau and Obi Islands, etc., in north Maluku.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Indonesian

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Media Resources

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Australia and the Pacific
    Wurm, Stephen A. 2007. Australia and the Pacific. In Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn., 424-557. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  3. Taba: Description of a South Halmahera Language
    Bowden, John. 2001. "Taba: Description of a South Halmahera Language." 521: Australian National University.