Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
|||
Line 21:
|glotto=tern1247
|glottorefname=Ternate
|script=[[Latin script]] ([[Malay alphabet|Rumi]])<br>Historically [[Arabic script]] ([[Jawi alphabet|Jawi]])<ref name=fsa>{{Cite book | author = Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq | title = Bijdragen tot de kennis der residentie Ternate | language = nl | ___location = Leiden | publisher = E.J. Brill | year = 1890 | page = 193 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IxMVAAAAIAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite
}}
'''Ternate''' is a language of northern [[Maluku Islands|Maluku]], eastern [[Indonesia]]. It is spoken by the {{interlanguage link|Ternate people|id|Suku Ternate|lt=Ternate people}}, who inhabit the island of [[Ternate]], as well as many other areas of the archipelago. It is the dominant indigenous language of [[North Maluku]], historically important as a regional [[lingua franca]]. A [[North Halmahera languages|North Halmahera language]], it is unlike most languages of Indonesia which belong to the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian language]] family.<ref name=":0" />
| |||