• Threatened

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 42,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Speaker numbers drawn from Ethnologue (1992).

DATE OF INFO

1992

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"The Tematean language is rapidly changing and even disappearing in many parts of the island, especially among the younger generation. Instead, North Moluccan Malay is becoming the first language of a large portion of the Tematean population. It seems that Tematean is in better shape on Halmahera."

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Speakers are shifting to use of North Moluccan Malay

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

No government support

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

No institutional support

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• North Moluccan Malay

• Indonesian

Scripts (Writing system)

Latin

More on Orthography

No published literature.

PLACES

Ternate Island, Indonesia