Tidore people

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Regent of Tidore (left) and Sultan Ahmad Fathuddin II (1867)
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Total population
53,000
Regions with significant populations
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia (North Maluku)
Languages
Tidore
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Ternate, Moluccan

The Tidore are a major moluccans ethnic group living in North Maluku province of Indonesia. They primarily live in Tidore island and also in some parts of Halmahera. They speak a Papuan language called Tidore. [1] The Tidore people are predominantly Sunni Muslim and famous as the founders of the Tidore Sultanate, a major Moluccan Muslim state. [2]

References

  1. Voorhoeve, C.L. (1988), "The languages of the North Halmaheran stock", Papers in New Guinea linguistics. No. 26, Pacific Linguistics A-76, Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, pp. 181–209, doi:10.15144/PL-A76.181, ISBN   0-85883-370-0, OCLC   220535054
  2. van Staden, Miriam; Reesink, Ger (2008). "Serial verb constructions in a linguistic area". In Senft, Gunter (ed.). Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages. Pacific Linguistics 594. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School Of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 17–54. ISBN   978-0-85883-591-7. OCLC   271765117.