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Uab Meto language
Austronesian language spoken in West Timor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Uab Meto or Dawan is an Austronesian language cluster spoken by the Atoni people of the Indonesian region of West Timor, as well as the East Timorese municipality of Oecussi-Ambeno.
In East Timor and other Portuguese-speaking countries the language is often called Baikenu (Portuguese: baiqueno), but more narrowly this term refers only to the variety spoken in East Timor, which is more influenced by Portuguese rather than Indonesian (for example, using obrigadu for 'thank you', instead of the Indonesian terima kasih).[3] In other languages it may also be erroneously referred to as West Timorese (with Tetum being "East Timorese") or even just Timorese, but these terms are misleading, as they ignore the linguistic diversity on both sides of the island.
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Phonology
Dawan has the following consonants and vowels:[4]
Voiceless plosives [p t k] can have unreleased allophones [p̚ t̚ k̚] in word-final position. A phonemic /r/ can be heard in place of /l/ among dialects.[5]
Vocabulary
A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database,[6] with data provided by Robert Blust and from Edwards (2016).[7]
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