Uab Meto or Dawan is an
Austronesian language spoken by
Atoni people of
West Timor. The language has a variant spoken in the
East Timorese exclave of
Oecussi-Ambeno
Oecusse (also variously ''Oecussi'', ''Ocussi'', ''Oekussi'', ''Oekusi'', ''Okusi'', ''OĂ©-Cusse''), also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (; ) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno (), is an exclave, mu ...
, called Baikenu. Baikenu uses words derived from
Portuguese, for example, ''obrigadu'' for "thank you", instead of the
Indonesian
Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to:
* Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia
** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago
** Indonesia ...
''terima kasih''.
Phonology
Dawan has the following consonants and vowels:
Voiceless plosives
t kcan have unreleased allophones
Ěš tĚš kĚš
A stop consonant, stop with no audible release, also known as an unreleased stop or an applosive, is a stop consonant with no release burst: no audible indication of the end of its occlusion (hold). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, lack of ...
in word-final position. A phonemic /r/ can be heard in place of /l/ among dialects.
Vocabulary
A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, with data provided by
Robert Blust and from Edwards (2016).
Numbers
See also
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Languages of Indonesia
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Languages of East Timor
The languages of East Timor include both Austronesian and Papuan languages. (See Timor–Flores languages and Timor–Alor–Pantar languages.) The lingua franca and national language of East Timor is Tetum, an Austronesian language influenced ...
References
Further reading
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External links
Uab Meto SiteUab Meto ResourcesIndonesian – English – Uab Meto Dictionary
Languages of Indonesia
Languages of East Timor
Timor–Babar languages
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