The homeland and migration process of speaker south halmahera austronesian

The South Halmahera Austronesian speakers refer to Buli speakers, Maba, Sawai, Gebe, Gane, and Taba located in North Maluku, Indonesia. The languages form a group called the South Halmahera Subgroup. As a group with the same ancestors, it leads to the need for explanations of the homeland and how speakers spread to their present settlement. This paper to explanations homeland and migrations process of the South Halmahera. This study showed, the ancestor of the South Halmahera is located on Gebe Island. From Gebe Island, the ancestral of South Halmahera, first migrated to Patani, followed by a second migration from Gebe Island to Gane. The first migration to Patani then spread in both directions, i.e to the north of the Maba-Buli region and to the south of the Weda-Sawai region. The last migration takes place from Gane to the island of Makian and Kayoa Island where Taba speakers live.