Gorap
Klassifizierung: Austronesian
·sicher gefährdet
- DATUM DER INFORMATION
- 1992
- ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
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- ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
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Ternate
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Malay
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Indonesian
- KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
Malayo-Polynesian creole, with a mixed vocabulary which also contains words from Malay, Indonesian and from the large West Papuan, North Halmahera lingua franca Ternate; under strong pressure from the languages from which the majority of its vocabulary seems to have originated
- ORTE
- Indonesia: North Maluku Province
- ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
Spoken on Morotai Island (the northernmost large island of North Halmahera) and on the southern coast and hinterland of Kau Bay in central eastern North Halmahera. The speakers are believed to have come from Sulawesi.