Taliabo language

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Taliabo
Native toIndonesia, Maluku
RegionTaliabu Island
Native speakers
4,900 (2000)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tlv – Taliabo
kzd – Kadai
Glottologtali1261
ELPKadai
Not to be confused with Kadai languages.
"Talo language" redirects here. For Talo (Tallau) dialect of Sudan, see Logorik language.

Taliabo (Taliabu) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of the same name in the Moluccas of Indonesia.

Dialects are:

  • Kadai
  • Padang (Samala)
  • Mananga
  • Mangei (Soboyo)

There are two linguistic strata in Taliabo, Central Maluku and Celebic, and it is not yet clear which group it belongs to.

References[]

  1. ^ Taliabo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kadai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.

Further reading[]

  • Fortgens, J. (1921). Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Sobojo (eiland Taliabo, Soela-groep) [Contribution to knowledge of Sobojo, on Taliabo, Sula islands] (in Dutch). Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.
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