Native to Indonesia, East Timor Glottolog oecu1234 | Native speakers 800,000 (2009–2011) | |
ISO 639-3 Either:
aoz – Uab Meto
bkx – Baikeno Regions West Timor, Oecusse District Language family Austronesian languages | ||
Uab Meto is an Austronesian language spoken by Atoni people of West Timor. The language has a variant spoken in the East Timorese exclave of Oecussi-Ambeno, called Baikenu. Baikenu uses words derived from Portuguese, for example, obrigadu for "thank you", instead of the Indonesian terima kasih.
A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database.
References
Uab Meto language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA