Informationen von: “A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccan, Indonesia” . Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)
Bedroht
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
42,000
Speaker numbers drawn from Ethnologue (1992).
DATUM DER INFORMATION
1992
NUTZUNGSBEREICHE
ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
VERBREITUNG
MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT
"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."
SPRECHEREINSTELLUNG
Speakers are shifting to use of North Moluccan Malay