Proto-North Halmahera language

The North Halmahera (NH) languages are a family of languages spoken in the northern and eastern parts of the island of Halmahera and some neighboring islands

the Halmahera Sea in the Indonesian province of North Maluku and of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of Papua and West Papua. There are 38 languages. The

Timor–Babar languages) Kowiai Teor-Kur Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (dubious) South Halmahera–West New Guinea Oceanic (approximately 450 languages) The position

Oceanic languages. Tonal contrasts are rare in Austronesian languages, although Moken–Moklen and a few languages of the Chamic, South Halmahera–West New

Central–Eastern languages which are not Eastern Malayo-Polynesian (Grimes 1991). The Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages extend from the coasts of Halmahera across