Taliabo language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in North Maluku, Indonesia}}

{{distinguish|Kadai languages}}

{{redirect |Talo language |Talo (Tallau) dialect of Sudan |Logorik language }}

{{Infobox language

|name=Taliabo

|nativename=Taliabu

|region=Taliabu Island

|states= Indonesia, Maluku

|speakers={{sigfig|4,870|2}}

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Celebic

|fam4=Saluan–BanggaiCharles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33B3FXQmvok Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics].

|lc1=tlv | |ld1=Taliabo

|lc2=kzd | ld2=Kadai

|glotto=tali1261

|glottorefname=Taliaboic

|ELP=1809

|ELPname=Kadai

}}

Taliabo (Taliabu) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of the same name in the Moluccas of Indonesia.

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 *h, but only in word-initial position.