West Timor languages

West Timor
Geographic
distribution:
Indonesia
Linguistic classification: Austronesian
Subdivisions:
Atoni
Roti

The West Timor languages are a group of Timor languages spoken in the western half of Timor and on the Roti Islands. There are branches:

A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] found full support for the unity between Atoni and Roti. These were then linked to exclusively to the languages of eastern Timor, in a Nuclear Timor family, with about 75% confidence.

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