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years old. In 2013, a friend visited him and noticed that he was sick and confined to bed rest.
The Galela language is scattered throughout North Maluku province. On Obi Island, South
Halmahera district, the Galela language is found at three points. In addition, this language
is also spoken in the Morotai Island district. So, to know which language is used in certain
administrative area in North Maluku, the two maps should be viewed simultaneously.

Ibu
Gorap
2°N

Galela
Tahafo Tabaru Loloda

Gamkonora
Laba
Talaga
Gamsungi Ibu Tugutil Tobelo
Tabaru Modole
Wailoli Gamkonora
Wailoli
Tugutil
Sahu
Kao
Pagu Buli
1°N

Ternate
Tidore
25 Km

127°E 128°E
The Map of Languages in North Maluku.

Learning languages in this area is quite difficult because of four things. Firstly, from
the point of concept creation, linguists create linguistic categories according to their
individual approaches. Voorhoeve (1983: 19), for example, said that the language group
of West Papua was divided into North Halmahera language group consisting of (i) a sub-
group of South Halmahera (Southern Sub-Group), and (ii) a sub-group of North Halmahera
(Northern Sub-Group) But Grimes and Grimes (1984: 48) use the term Superstock under

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