Alternate Names: Ternate Malay
Dialects: None known. Different meaning of particles from Manado Malay ,. Reportedly more similar to Manado Malay than to Ambonese Malay ,. A member of macrolanguage Malay ,.
Status Notes: Became LWC through trade, also used in daily life, inter-ethnic contact.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 700,000 (2001 SIL). 100,000 monolinguals. L2 users: 300,000 (2001 R. Whisler).
Language Use: A few communities use it as L1. Used orally between speakers of different languages. 600,000 also use Indonesian [ind]. Used as L2 by Sawai [szw], Tabaru [tby], Tidore [tvo], Tobelo [tlb].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Bible portions: 2005–2012.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Muslim, Christian.