Ternate people
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The Ternate people are located on Ternate Island with a population of 50,000 people. The island is included in the province of North Maluku with the capital city of Ternate. In addition to being located on the island of origin, the people of Ternate are also located in other areas, such as Bacan island and Obi island which are part of the Central Halmahera regency area, and other areas inside and outside North Maluku Province.
Most Ternate people are Muslims.[1] There is also a small Protestant minority. Ternate people speak the Ternate language, which is a non-Austronesian language that belongs to the North Halmahera branch of the West Papuan languages.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Lewis, M. Paul (2009). "Ternate - A language of Indonesia (Maluku)". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International.
- ^ "Documentation of Ternate Malay - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
- ^ Jalaludin, Nurain; Subuh, Rahma Do; Maulud, Ismail; Haerullah, Bakhtiar (2024-05-18). "Language Vitality Indicator Towards The Use Of Ternate Language On Ternate Language Enclave In Sahu District, West Halmahera Regency". International Journal of Education and Humanities. 3 (1): 15–25. doi:10.56314/ijoleh.v3i1.209. ISSN 2829-8675.
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