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Tobelo

language in North Maluku
Class type of: West Papuan Q1142333

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[4]
Country
Indonesia[3]
Subclass of
West Papuan
Ethnologue language status
5 Developing[11]
Indigenous to
North Maluku, Tobelo people, Togutil people, Pale[7][8][9][10]
Native label
bahasa Tobelo[6]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+27720[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en tlb en Tobelo en Tobelo language id bahasa Tobelo ja トベロ語 ko 토벨로어 pl język tobelo ru тобело th ภาษาโตเบโล tr tlb zh 托貝洛語
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
10936
Ethnologue.com language code
tlb
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/0f9fsf
Glottolog code
tobe1251
IETF language tag
tlb
ISO 639-3 code
tlb
NL CR AUT ID
ph297010
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007538923305171
Statistics Indonesia language code
0795 5
Topic's main category
Category:Tobelo language
WALS lect code
tlo

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🔗 Connections
Indigenous to 3
North Maluku, Togutil people, Tobelo people
← Language used 3
Papua, Maluku, North Maluku
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Country 1
Indonesia
Subclass of 1
West Papuan
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Summary

Tobelo is a language[1]. Tobelo is a type of West Papuan[2].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status → 5 Developing
    Country → —
    Indigenous to → North Maluku, Tobelo people, Togutil people +1
    Instance of → language, modern language
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007538923305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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