Taliabu

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Taliabu

  1. An island of the Moluccas, in the province of North Maluku, Indonesia.
    • 2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.
  2. A language spoken on that island, including the dialect Soboyo.

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