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TugutilLanguage

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tugutil language

The TugutilLanguage is a TobeloGroupLanguage of Indonesia (Maluku). SIL code: TUJ. ISO 639-2: paa. Population: 1,000 to 3,000 (1984 C. and B. D. Grimes SIL). Region: North Maluku, north Halmahera Island, inland around Kusuri, inland in Kecamatan Tobelo, around Taboulamo in Kecamatan Kao, in the pass between Lolobata and Buli in Kecamatan Wasilei, along the Dodaga and Tutuling rivers, and along the Akelamo and Mabulan rivers in Kecamatan Maba, Tanjung Lili, villages of Miaf, Bebseli, and Marasibno. A few along the Lili, Waisango, and Afu rivers, and reports of other places. Dialects: TELUK LILI, KUSURI. Comments: Possibly several dialects separated by large distances. Intelligibility with Tobelo dialects is inadequate. Bilingualism in Indonesian. Language attitudes are positive. Ethnically distinct from Tobelo. A group of forest peoples who have contact with village people for selling copra and purchasing supplies. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 15%. Traditional religion, Christian.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	north halmahera language	Of the 26 WestPapuanLanguages, 16 are classified as a NorthHalmaheraLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	northern north halmahera language	Of the 16 NorthHalmaheraLanguages, 14 are classified as a NorthernNorthHalmaheraLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	spoken human language	A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
	tobelo group language	Of the 14 NorthernNorthHalmaheraLanguages two closely related languages are classified as a TobeloGroupLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	west papuan language	A WestPapuanLanguage is any one of 26 languages forming a distinct family of languages of Indonesia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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