<![CDATA[The people in the southern part of Morotai Island speak a similar isolect with Galela language, and the others in the northern part of the island speak Tobelo language. in addition, the people of Pilowo and Waringin Village speak Gorap language, while the small member of people use Sangir language. This research aims to explain (1) a description of non-Austronesian isolect in Morotai Island. (2) The morphophonemic process of non-Austronesian isolect in Morotai Island. in this research, there are three villages selected as observation points, i.e. Daeo Village in the district of South Morotai, Sangowo and Mira Village in the district of East Morotai. in each point of observation consists of three informants. The elicitation of linguistic data were used Swadesh wordlist. The provision of data were used interview and comprehension methods through face to face interview, note taking, and recording as well as intercepting technique. The data were analyzed by applying intralingual correspondence method. The results of this study suggest that (1) The non-Austronesian isolect in Morotai Island has five vowel sounds: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/; 15 diphtong sounds: /ia/, /ao/, /uo/, /ou/, /eo/, /ae/, /oi/, /au/, /io/, /oa/, /ue/, /iu/, /ai/,/ui/, and /ua/; and 21 consonant sounds: /p/, /t/, /k/, /Ɂ/, /b/, /ʤ/, /d/, /g/, /m/, /n/, /ɲ/, /ŋ/, /r/, /f/,/s/, /j/, /h/, /ʧ/, /l/, /w/, and /y/. (2) The morpho-phonemic processes of the non-Austronesian isolect in Morotai Island occur due to affixation process]]>
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