Meanings
- An island of the Moluccas in the province of North Maluku, Indonesia.
The Indonesian islands of Taliabu, Peleng and Batudaka are in a region named Wallacea, after Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th-century naturalist who developed a theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin’s.
2020 January 9, Karen Weintraub, “Trove of New Bird Species Found on Remote Indonesian Islands”, in The New York Times - A language spoken on that island, including the dialect Soboyo.
Cite this entry
Taliabu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taliabu
“Taliabu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taliabu. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Taliabu,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Taliabu.
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