Taliabo (Taliabu) is a

Malayo-Polynesian language The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast ...

spoken on the island of the same name in the

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. Dialects are: *Kadai *Padang (Samala) *Mananga *Mangei (Soboyo) There are two linguistic strata in Taliabo, Central Maluku and Celebic, and it is not yet clear which group it belongs to. The Soboyo dialect of Taliabo is notable for preserving

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesia ...

''*h'', but only in word-initial position.

Phonology

Consonants

All stop sounds (except for ) and fricatives , may also be prenasalized in both word-initial and word-medial positions as .

Phonology

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