Gebe, orMinyaifuin, is anAustronesian language of eastern Indonesia, spoken on theGebe,Yu, andGag islands betweenHalmahera andWaigeo.

The Gebe language is divided into five dialects spoken on three separate islands, as follows:

• TheGag dialect is spoken onGag Island, the dialect is almost similar to the Umera dialect because the population migrated from there.
• TheNuclear Gebe dialect is the most widely used dialect, spoken in the settlement centers onGebe Island, including the villages of Elfanun, Kacepi, Kapaleo, Sanafi, and Yam.
• TheUmera dialect is spoken in Umera village, located in the southeastern part of Gebe Island.
• TheUmiyal dialect is spoken in Umiyal, the only village onYu Island.
• TheSanafkacepo dialect is spoken in Sanafkacepo village on the east coast of Gebe Island.

[ʔ] only appears when within the sequence of vowels in syllable-final positions.^[2]

Voiced sounds /b, d/ may also be articulated by speakers as implosive sounds [ɓ, ɗ] when in word-initial or intervocalic positions.^[3]

• Bax, Marton Miklós Willem (2019).A sketch grammar of Gebe: a language of North Maluku. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.
• Burhanuddin, Burhanuddin; Sumarlam, Sumarlam; Mahsun, Mahsun (2017)."Kedudukan bahasa Gebe di Halmahera Tengah Maluku Utara: Studi pendahuluan dari aspek linguistik historis".Arkhais: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia.8 (1):1–7.doi:10.21009/ARKHAIS.081.01.

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