Morphemes’ Ternate Malay Languages in North Maluku Province, Indonesia

Abstract

The studyaims to analyze functional morphemes in the Ternate Malay Language.The study uses descriptive method to know heterogeneous functional morphemes. This study showed that functional morphemes in the Ternate Malay language have differences in affixes forms. In the Ternate Malay language consistof functional morphemes can be categorized as one of the most popular language in north Maluku province-Indonesia. This language is used by peoples in north Maluku province to communicateevery day. This study concluded that there were functional morphemes in Ternate Malay language consists of affixes {so}, {mo}, {ba},{pe}, {ma}, {akang}, {kong}.