Tobelo language

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The Tobelo language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Tobelo people of northern Halmahera in Indonesia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
natural language
belongsToSubgroup Tobelo–Galela subgroup NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Galela language NERFINISHED
Loloda language NERFINISHED
Modole language NERFINISHED
Pagu language NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Indonesia
ethnologueCode tlb NERFINISHED
glottologCode tobe1258
glottologName Tobelo NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Tobeloan NERFINISHED
hasClauseStructure predicate-initial in some constructions
hasContactWith Indonesian language
North Moluccan Malay NERFINISHED
Ternate language NERFINISHED
hasDialects Boeng dialect
Dodinga dialect
Kakara dialect
Mareko dialect
Tobelo proper dialect
Tugutil dialect NERFINISHED
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Malay NERFINISHED
Ternate Malay NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticArea North Halmahera linguistic area NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code tlb
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars in Austronesian linguistics
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+9
primaryWordOrder SVO
region northern Halmahera
spokenBy Tobelo people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Halmahera Island NERFINISHED
Indonesia
North Halmahera NERFINISHED
subfamily West Papuan Malay contact area
usedAs marker of Tobelo ethnic identity
usedFor daily communication among Tobelo people
usedIn traditional oral literature of Tobelo people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Buli language isGeographicallyCloseTo Tobelo language
Halmahera languagesSpoken Tobelo language