Ternate is a member of the North Halmahera group of West Papuan languages. It is spoken by about 62,000 people in North Maluku Province in eastern Indonesia, particularly on the island of Ternate, and on the nearby islands of Halmahera, Hiri, Obi and Kayoa and Bacan. Historically, it was the language of the Ternate Sultanate, and its influence extended to the languages of northern Sulawesi, which have borrowed quite a few words from Ternate. Ternate itself has loanwords from Malay, Portuguese, Dutch, English and Javanese.
Ternate is spoken mainly by older people. Children are more likely to speak Indonesian, and their parents believe that speaking to them in Ternate would effect their performance at school, where they are taught in Indonesian. There is also a Ternate Malay creole, which combines elements of Ternate, Malay and Indonesian, and which is becoming increasingly widely-spoken.
Ternate is also known as Ternatese or Ternatean. It is closely related to Tidore, which is spoken mainly on the nearby island of Tidore. The two languages are mutually intelligible and are classified as dialects of one language, known as Ternate-Tidore, by some people.
From the 15th century, Ternate was written with the Arabic script after ther Ternate people became Muslim. When Europeans started arriving in the region in the 17th century, ways to write Ternate with the Latin script were devised. Nowadays, Ternate is written with the Latin script using an orthography based on Indonesian. In the past, an orthography based on Dutch was used.
Long vowels are doubled (aa).
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Ngongaje enane isinyata: Madero se Joou Kolano Assultuan Tajulmulki Amiruddin Iskandar Kolin Syah Putera Mohammad Zain, se i baba paduka tuan yang terhormat mulia, Derek Feredek Hermanus Helbak, residen Tarinate nga pareta madaha, toma Kutika enage simara Joou Allah ta'ala siguci balaa sodid lamo toma kie Tarinate.
During the time of Lord King Sultan Tayulmulki Amiraddin Iskandar Kolin Shah Putera Muhammad Zain and, and in the administration of his father, the noble lord Dirk Frederik Hermanus Helbak, at that moment Lord God the Highest descended a great disasterous earthquake on the island of Ternate.
Source: A Descriptive Study Of The Language Of Ternate, The Northern Moluccas, Indonesia
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Information about Ternate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternate_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тернате_(язык)
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_ternate
https://vdoc.pub/documents/a-descriptive-study-of-the-language-of-ternate-the-northern-moluccas-indonesia-77eq2d16oc10
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahasa_Ternate
Galela, Meyah, Ternate, Tidore, Tobelo
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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