Native to Indonesia Glottolog tido1248 | ISO 639-3 tvo | |
Region North Maluku, islands of Tidore, Maitara, Mare, northern half of Moti, and some areas of west coast of Halmahera. Native speakers (26,000 cited 1981)
20,000 L2 speakers (1981) Language family West Papuan
Halmahera
Ternate–Tidore
Tidore | ||
Tidore is a language centred on the island of Tidore, but it is also spoken in the neighbouring Halmahera. A Papuan language, it is unlike most languages in Indonesia which belong to the Austronesian language family. It, and the similar Ternate language, appear to be related to languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula, Papua.
It is closely related to Ternate.
References
Tidore language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA