Przypisy . Cytat: (As a result of Malay influence, Ternatese and Tidorese have lost the complex verb conjugations of the highly synthetic mainland North Halmaheran languages, including Tobelo.) . Cytat: By at least the late 15th century, these West Papuan languages, Ternatese and Tidorese, were being written with a modified Arabic-based script, which was already fully developed when the Portuguese reached Ternate in 1512. (These were thus the only indigenously written Papuan languages at the time of European contact.)
. Cytat: This grammar gives insights into how Papuan and Austronesian features may blend into one language. It poses questions to the (im)possibility of genetic classification and the existence of ‘mixed languages’.
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