lang_description: "Moi (West Makian) is a rather divergent North Halmaheran language of Indonesia. A sketch can be found in Voorhoeve 1982.",
classification: "North Halmahera",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "Not to be confused with Taba (East Makian), an Austronesian language spoken on the eastern half of Makian Island. Distinct from Moi spoken in Papua. ",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
{
id:32037,
code_id:10725,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "~12,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1973",
public_comment: ""The West Makian language is spoken by an estimated 12,000 people , 7000 of whom live on the western half of Makian Island and the remainder on four islands in the Kayoa group south of Makian: Moari , Lelei , Gunage, and Gafi." This number has likely declined drastically in recent years. ",
private_comment: null,
source_id:99335,
preferred:1,
},
],
language: {
code_id:10725,
featured: 0,
cached_documentation_score:-1,
google_group_url: "",
simplified_level: "mid",
coordinates: "0.3891447,127.3244647",
updated_at: "2018-03-25 01:00:55",
speaker_attitude: "",
government_support: "No government support",
institutional_support: "No institutional support",
user_submission: "This is the language spoken on the western half of the island of Makian. The island on the eastern half -- East Makian -- is included in the catalog even though it has far more speakers than Moi. So why not include Moi as well? ",