Harsunan Arewacin Halmahera

Harsunan Arewa Halmahera (NH) dangi ne na harsuna da ake magana da su a arewaci da gabas na tsibirin Halmahera da wasu tsibiran da ke makwabtaka da Indonesia . Yankin kudu maso yammacin tsibirin yana mamaye da harsunan Kudancin Halmahera da ba su da alaƙa, waɗanda rukuni ne na Australiya . Wataƙila suna da alaƙa da alaƙa da harsunan Bird's Head na Yammacin Papua, amma wannan ba shi da tushe sosai.

Shahararren Harshen Arewa Halmaheran shine Ternate (masu magana na asali 50,000), wanda shine yaren yanki kuma wanda, tare da Tidore, yare ne na abokan hamayyar Ternate da Tidore sultanates, sanannen rawar da suke takawa a cikin cinikin kayan yaji .

Yawancin waɗannan harsuna suna da alaƙa da juna sosai, kuma an nuna matsayinsu na iyali. Yammacin Makian ya fice a matsayin keɓe. Har yanzu ba a san hanyoyin haɗin su na waje ba. Duk da yake asalinsu ya bambanta da yawancin harsunan Indonesiya, dukkansu suna nuna shaidar cudanya da dangin harshen Austronesiya.

Wasu daga cikin harsunan Arewa Halmahera suna da ƙayyadaddun tsarin halittarsu. Wasu kuma suna nuna tasiri mai zurfi na waje, bayan sun ƙaura zuwa ƙarin nahawu irin na Australiya sakamakon tsayin daka. ^[2]

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nort2923 |chapterurl= missing title (help). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. ↑ Voorhoeve, Clemens L. 1988. The languages of the northern Halmaheran stock. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics, no. 26., 181-209. (Pacific Linguistics A-76). Canberra: Australian National University.