Tidore is a member of the North Halmahera group of West Papuan languages. It is spoken by about 46,000 people in North Maluku Province in eastern Indonesia, particularly on the island of Tidore, and on the nearby islands of Mare and Moti, and on the west coast of Halmahera and Maitara. It is used as a regional lingua franca in the Central Halmahera area. Younger Tidore people are shifting to Indonesian and are less likely to speak Tidore than older people.
Tidore is closely related to Ternate, which is spoken mainly on the nearby island of Ternate. The two languages are mutually intelligible and are classified as dialects of one language, known as Ternate-Tidore, by some people. Dialects of Tidore include Soasiu and Galela.
From the 15th century, Tidore was written with the Arabic script after ther Tidore people became Muslim. When Europeans started arriving in the region in the 17th century, ways to write Tidore with the Latin script were devised. Tidore is taught in some schools, and a few schools books and other books have been published in and about the language.
When words begin with a vowel, there is a glottal stop [ʔ] before it, and when they end with a vowel, it is followed by a glottal stop. Glottal stops are not indicated in writing.
Download alphabet charts for Tidore (Excel)
Toma buku ma you sema gam rimoi kagé ahu Nen se ma dano rimoi ironga Abdul. Wange moi wange moi Nene mokerja toma gura maha Abdul wotagi toma sekolah. Sekolah koliho Abdul wobiasa madigali inene ngam bira la oyo wange konora. Onan yongam bira toma boso kotu rimoi yang ngowo rai. Boso kotu ma ngowo rai enagé tapi boso sabarang ua enagé boso ajaib.
In a mountain village lived, a grandmother with her grandson named Abdul. Every the grandmother worked in the garden while Abdul went to school. After school Abdul would help his mother cook rice for lunch. They would cook the rice in an old black pot. The old black pot was not an ordinary pot, but a magic pot.
Source: A first look at Tidore phonology. Pikkert, Joost J. J. and Cheryl M. Pikkert. 1995.
Information about Tidore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidore_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Тидоре_(язык)
https://unbrick.id/kamus-bahasa-tidore-menjelajahi-kekayaan-bahasa-dan-budaya-tidore/
http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/language/tvo
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/tvo
Galela, Meyah, Ternate, Tidore, Tobelo
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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