Northern and western regions of Halmahera Island (mainly)
Ethnicity
Bobaneigo
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language family
Malay-based creole
Gorap
Language codes
ISO 639-3
goq
Glottolog
gora1261
ELP
Gorap
Gorap
Gorap language classified as Endangered by UNESCO in its Atlas of the World's Languages at Risk of Extinction
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Gorap is a creole of Malay predominantly spoken by Bobaneigo ethnic group, indigenous to western and northern regions of the Indonesian island of Halmahera.[2] It shares vocabulary with other Papuan languages and some of languages spoken in Sulawesi, such as Buginese and Cia-Cia. Roughly around 60 out of 200 attested words in this language were indicated sharing vocabulary with those languages.[3]
^Gorap at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^"Bahasa Gorap". Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa (in Indonesian). Indonesia: Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia.
^Sa'diyah, H. W. F. K. (2020). Sudaryanto (ed.). "Laporan Fonologi Bahasa Gorap". Metode dan Aneka Teknik. Kantor Bahasa Provinsi Maluku.
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