VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

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TUNE BUKA

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This is RRI World Service –Voice of Indonesia with the program –My Language informing you the traditional languages of Indonesia.

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MUSIK CROSS SUARA BAHASA DAERAH

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Listener, Indonesia has hundreds of traditional languages spreading across its regions. However, not all of them are known well by the people of Indonesia or foreign people. One of them is Tobati Language from Jayapura, Papua.

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MUSIK PAPUA

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Tobati Language originates from the people living around Yotefa Bay or Jayapura Bay, Jayapura City, Papua Province. Currently, the speakers of Tobati language are spreading in three districts in Papua Province, namely South Jayapura, Abepura, and Muara Tami.

The number of Tobati speakers in 1984 was 800, and 600 in 1999. However, the number of speakers is now decreasing due to influence of other languages. Even, the speakers of Tobati language are predicted to remain only 500 people whom all of them are elderly. Therefore, the Tobati language is categorized as "seriously endangered language".

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MUSIK

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The characters of Tobati language use the same ones with Indonesian or Latin. However, there are several characters unavailable in Tobati language such as x, q, v, and z.

Another uniqueness of Tobati language is its clause and sentence structure. If Indonesian structure consists of subject-predicate-object, the Tobati language uses subject-object-predicate.

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MUSIK

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Listener, here is a list of several word examples of Tobati language:

N’ghu

Ntrica

Want

Nasre

Moghot

Recau

Rora

dalam bahasa…

dalam bahasa…

dalam bahasa…

dalam bahasa…

dalam bahasa…

dalam bahasa…

dalam bahasa…

I

They

Eat

Papeda

Mount

To hike

Yesterday

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MUSIK

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Listener, now here are some examples of sentences in Tobati language:

Nhu nasre want =

Rora ntrica moghot = recau

I eat papeda

Yesterday, they hiked the mountain.

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TUNE TUTUP

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Well listener, that was My Language for today about Tobati Language. Thank you for listening and Sampai Jumpa.

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LANJUTAN TUNE TUTUP