La información está incompleta “A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccan, Indonesia” . Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)
Con amenaza de extinción
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
42,000
Speaker numbers drawn from Ethnologue (1992).
FECHA DE INFORMACIÓN
1992
DOMINIOS DE USO
TENDENCIAS DE HABLANTES
TRANSMISIÓN
MÁS SOBRE LA VITALIDAD
"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."
ACTITUD DEL HABLANTE
Speakers are shifting to use of North Moluccan Malay