Region East Timor ISO 639-3 kem | Native speakers 72,000 (2010 census) Glottolog kema1243 | |
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Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Nuclear MP
(Central–Eastern)
Timor–Babar
Ramelaic
West
Kemak | ||
Kemak is a language spoken in East Timor and in the border region of Indonesian West Timor. An alternate name is Ema. It is most closely related to Tocodede and Mambai. It has the status of one of the national languages in the East Timor constitution, besides the official languages of Portuguese and Tetum. The number of speakers has fallen in recent years.
References
Kemak language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA