Habu (Habun) is a language spoken in central

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-we ...

. The classification of Habu is unclear. Structurally, it is

Malayo-Polynesian The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast ...

. However, its vocabulary is largely Papuan, similar to that of Makasae.

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Languages of East Timor Timor–Babar languages {{austronesian-lang-stub