Kemak is a language spoken in East Timor and in the border region of

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. An alternate name is Ema. It is most closely related to Tocodede and

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. It has the status of one of the national languages in the East Timor constitution, besides the official languages of

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and

Tetum , nativename=Tetun , states= Indonesia East Timor , speakers=, mostly in Indonesia , date=2010–2011 , ref=e18 , speakers2=50,000 L2-speakers in Indonesia and East Timor , familycolor=Austronesian , fam2=Malayo-Polynesian , fam3= Central–East ...

. The number of speakers has fallen in recent years.

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Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

's collection of

Robert Blust Robert A. Blust (; ; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Blus ...

's materials include notes on Kemak Timor–Babar languages Languages of East Timor {{EastTimor-stub