Uab Meto or Dawan is an

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spoken by the

Atoni The Atoni (also known as the Atoin Meto, Atoin Pah Meto or Dawan) people are an ethnic group on Timor, in Indonesian West Timor and the East Timorese enclave of Oecussi-Ambeno. They number around 844,030. Their language is Uab Meto. The Ato ...

people of the Indonesian region of

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, as well as the East Timorese

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. In East Timor and other

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the language is often called Baikenu (), 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 for 'thank you', instead of the Indonesian ). In other languages it may also be erroneously referred to as West Timorese (with

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being "East Timorese") or even just Timorese, but these terms are misleading, as they ignore the linguistic diversity on both sides of the island.

Phonology

Dawan has the following consonants and vowels: Voiceless plosives can have unreleased allophones in word-final position. A phonemic can be heard in place of among dialects.

Vocabulary

A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, with data provided by

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and from Edwards (2016).

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References

External links

Uab Meto SiteUab Meto ResourcesIndonesian – English – Uab Meto Dictionary
Languages of Indonesia Languages of Timor-Leste Timor–Babar languages {{au-lang-stub

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