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are still not well known, scattered along the South coast of Irian. Blust also confirmed that
several repeated changes in Central-Malay-Polynesian may have been independent, when
Blust saw the migration of a few people in the South Moluccas towards the south coast
of the Bird’s Head peninsula on the island of Irian. Furthermore, according to Blust, the
Austronesian languages in the South-West Halmahera and Papua indicate the transition
between Austronesian languages of Indonesia and Austronesian languages of Oceania
(Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia).
Masinambow (1984) shows the map of the phyla of Non-Austronesian languages
in Irian Jaya which has been modified and removed from the map in Papuan Language
stocks: the Western New Guinea Area by Wurm and Hatori (1981). On the map, the
linguistic relationship between Papua, Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara is obvious. The
relationship of languages is made clear in the paper of Inyo Fernandes, who discussed
the study of Austro-Melanesian and Melano-Papuan languages in Papua, in the western
group of Melano-Papua (Non AN); there are also languages which exhibit characteristics
that are not much different and are convincingly the same as those in inland regions of
Melano-Papua languages. Similar groups were found among others in the province of
North Maluku, including the languages of Ternate, Tidore and some languages in North
Halmahera. Similarly, belonging to the group of Non An Melano-Papua are languages of the
groups of Alor-Pantar-Timor in NTT province, as discussed Abui, Woisika and Blaggar, also
the language of Buna and Kemak, in the border area of Atambua and Timor Leste. Besides,
there is another language group that includes the languages of Fataluku, Makasai, at the
eastern end of Timor Leste and the language of Oirata in Southwest Maluku. Similarities
in languages in northern Halmahera and Papua can be traced to the reconstruction of the
initial language or proto language, whereas in the language group of Alor-Pantar-Timor
in NTT, the language in Papua group of West Papuan Phylum, has Historical relationships
through the study of linguistics diachronic and its evidence (Gordon, 2005).
This opinion above is reinforced by the data on Indonesian languages issued by SIL
Indonesia (Lewis et al., 2015), which state that there are some languages in Maluku that
have relationships with a number of languages in Papua and East Nusa Tenggara, namely:
• The Galela language, which has similarities with the languages that exist in the
northern part of Papua.
• The Gamkonora Language, Ibu Language, Laba Language, West/Outer Makian
Language, Modole Language, Pagu Language, Sahu Language, Ternate
Language, Tidore, and Waioli language with the languages that exist in the
western part of Papua.

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