Wetarese language
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| Wetarese Wetar |
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| Spoken in: | Indonesia | |
| Region: | Southeast Asia | |
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| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central-Eastern MP Central MP Timor-Flores Southwest Maluku Wetarese |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | wet | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: apx — Aputai ilu — Ili'uun wet — Parai ilw — Talur tzn — Tugun |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Wetarese is the language of Wetar, an island in the south Moluccas, Indonesia, as well as the nearby islands Liran and Atauro, the latter belonging to East Timor.
On Atauro, there are three dialects of Wetarese spoken, Rahesuk in the north, Resuk in the southeast, and Raklungu in the southwest. A fourth dialect, Dadu'a, is spoekn by the descendants of a group of Ataurans who moved to Timor, in the villages of Manatuto.
The language is closely related to Galoli, spoken on Timor on the north coast near Atauro. However, Wetarese has been more influenced by Malay.
[edit] External links
- Survey of languages of East Timor
- [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90250 Wetarese languages at Ethnologue
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