Bacan English Dictionary

Penulis: James T. Collins
ISBN: 978-623-02-4828-3
Ukuran: x, 266 hlm, 2029 cm
Tahun Terbit 2022

The linguistic and cultural situation of North Maluku has always been complex and multi-layered. The prehistoric peopling of the region, featuring two waves of incremental migrations, namely the Aus[1]tralo-Melanesian movements 40,000 years ago and the Austronesian migrations 4,000 years ago, laid the foundation for the diversity of this region (Collins 2014:49-50). The global demand for clove, the aromatic spice indigenous to North Maluku, began 2000 years ago and added new layers to language and ethnic diversity. This diversity was noted by the earliest observers, including a Portuguese resident of Ternate, A. Galvo, writing in 1544 (Jacobs 1971). Indeed, the population movements resulting from the wars, political rivalries, slave trade and punitive policies of the early colonial period increasingly complicated the inter-webbing of languages and cultures in the region.

Among all the languages of North Maluku, the language of Bacan remains among the least studied. Indeed, in Taber (1996) Bacan was not even considered a language of North Maluku . However, for two hundred years, Bacan, its rulers and inhabitants held a significant place in the earliest documentation of the region beginning with the Malay letter of 1521 written in Ternate, describing Bacans conflict with the Portuguese (Blagden 1930, Collins 2018:28). Valentyns (1724) compendium of Maluku included a copy of a letter written by the sultan of Bacan. However, despite all that history and documentation, the Bacan language itself only began to be mentioned in the nineteenth century

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