Gorap language

Gorap
Gorap
Gorapic; Gorapish; Gorapese; Gorapian; Gorrap;
Gorap
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Northern and western regions of Halmahera Island (mainly)
Ethnicity	Bobaneigo
Native speakers	(1,000 speakers, only in Morotai Island cited 1992)
Language family	West Papuan Halmahera-Cenderawasih Northern Halmahera Gorap; ; ;
Standard forms	Standard Gorap
Writing system	Latin (main)
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Indonesia North Maluku;
Regulated by	Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan (lit. 'National Language and Fostering Agency of the Republic of Indonesia') North Maluku Linguistic Center;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	goq
Glottolog	gora1261
ELP	Gorap; Gorap;
	Gorap language classified as Endangered by UNESCO in its Atlas of the World's Languages at Risk of Extinction
	Gorap
	Coordinates: 0°51′53.9388″N 127°40′5.2212″E / 0.864983000°N 127.668117000°E
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Gorap is a Northern Halmahera language^[2] of West Papuan family, natively spoken by the Bobaneigo ethnic group, indigenous to western and northern regions of the Indonesian island of Halmahera.^[2]

Distribution

Based on the official linguistic mapping data by the National Language and Fostering Agency under the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, the Gorap language is spoken natively on the Indonesian island of Halmahera, specifically in the Kao Teluk district which is administratively part of the North Halmahera regencial region and also in the East Jailolo district in the West Halmahera regencial region.^[2] This language is also spoken by its diasporic community, especially those who lives on the island of Morotai (especially South Morotai) and also on the island of Sulawesi (especially Southeast Sulawesi).

Classification

Based on the classification of official linguistic data from the National Language and Fostering Agency under the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, the Gorap language is one of the languages of the West Papuan family in the North Halmahera group, which shared the same linguistic family to Ternate, Tobelo, Western Makian, Galela and Sahu languages that are also spoken in the western region of Halmahera Island.^[2]

References

^ Gorap at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Bahasa Gorap" [Gorap language]. Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (in Indonesian). Indonesia: Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia.

Notes

Other sites

[e22-1] Gorap at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)

[PB-2] "Bahasa Gorap" [Gorap language]. Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (in Indonesian). Indonesia: Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia.

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