Bahasa Tanah

[KuakoVoice]

Bahasa Tanah is the name for the umbrella group of Indigineous languages in Eastern Indonesia,mainly the Moluccas as well as Nusa Tengarra.These languages are very distinct and unintelligible with the other Austronesian languages of Indonesia or the Phillipines.The reason this is is theorized to be Papuan influence,which is also why Oceanian Austronesian languages are distinct.

Bahasa Tanah and Tetum from Timor Leste are in the same Austronesian family,called the Central Malayo Polynesian family.The languages in the region of Wallacea are thought to be distinct from other Southeast Asian Austronesian languages and closer to Oceanias' Austronesian tongues.

Examples of Moluccan Bahasa Tanah

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6ImtOWnyg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M33bhly8Hsk&t=68s

https://imgur.com/a/WBITcbg

"To SUMMARIZE what we have up to here: with regard to the deepest prehistoric layer, we seem to observe two aspects in the relationship between Maluku and Melanesia. ON ONE SIDE, all Austronesian languages of Oceania and those of East Indonesia up to Flores and the Sula Islands apparently form one one group and are thus more closely related to each other than to any other Austronesian languages, including those of Central and West Indonesia."

[KuakoVoice]

Bahasa Tanah is the name for the umbrella group of Indigineous languages in Eastern Indonesia,mainly the Moluccas as well as Nusa Tengarra.These languages are very distinct and unintelligible with the other Austronesian languages of Indonesia or the Phillipines.The reason this is is theorized to be Papuan influence,which is also why Oceanian Austronesian languages are distinct.

Bahasa Tanah and Tetum from Timor Leste are in the same Austronesian family,called the Central Malayo Polynesian family.The languages in the region of Wallacea are thought to be distinct from other Southeast Asian Austronesian languages and closer to Oceanias' Austronesian tongues.

Examples of Moluccan Bahasa Tanah

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6ImtOWnyg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M33bhly8Hsk&t=68s

https://imgur.com/a/WBITcbg

"To SUMMARIZE what we have up to here: with regard to the deepest prehistoric layer, we seem to observe two aspects in the relationship between Maluku and Melanesia. ON ONE SIDE, all Austronesian languages of Oceania and those of East Indonesia up to Flores and the Sula Islands apparently form one one group and are thus more closely related to each other than to any other Austronesian languages, including those of Central and West Indonesia."

The Bahasa Tanah of my village,Hulaliu

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MfRZN24ZFZ8&t=2s

[El_Abominacion]

These people look like Fijians and more Melanesian influenced Polynesian groups.

[KuakoVoice]

These people look like Fijians and more Melanesian influenced Polynesian groups.

That is because we indeed have a very similar mixture,of Austronesian and Papuan.We are all Melanesians,an Australoid people who speak an Austronesian language and have Austronesian admixture.

[KuakoVoice]

More examples of Bahasa Tanah,Indigineous Moluccan languages

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4jPmg4JdPg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=md8DpSHlgmo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yoBCIN...index=539&t=0s

[KuakoVoice]

A traditional Moluccan song "Hio Hio" in Bahasa Tanah.Bahasa Tanah is one of the Central Austronesian languages along with the Austronesian languages of Timor and East Nusa Tengarra.The Central Austronesian languages are unique in that they are neither Malay nor Oceanic,but thought to be the closest Austronesian languages to the Oceanian ones in Polynesia and Micronesia.Central Austronesian languages as well as Oceanian Austronesian languages have Papuan influence.The Maluku Islands and East Timor/East Nusa Tengarra also has Indigineous Papuan languages such as Galela in Halmahera,as well as a unique Austronesian family called the South Halmahera/West Papuan language family.

https://youtu.be/FFZxOjNv1y4