Uab Meto

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Uab Meto is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Atoni (Dawan) people of West Timor in Indonesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Uab Meto canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
alternativeName Dawan NERFINISHED
Dawanese
Timorese Dawan NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Helong language NERFINISHED
Tetun language NERFINISHED
country Indonesia
ethnicGroupAssociated Atoni of Timor NERFINISHED
glottocode dawa1253
hasAlternativeSpelling Uab Meto’ NERFINISHED
hasDialect Amfoan NERFINISHED
Baikeno NERFINISHED
Kotos Amarasi NERFINISHED
Miomafo NERFINISHED
Mollo NERFINISHED
South Central Timor dialects
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Indonesian NERFINISHED
Portuguese (loanwords)
hasMorphologyType moderately agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
simple consonant inventory typical of Timoric languages
hasWordOrder SVO (subject–verb–object) dominant order
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isMinorityLanguageIn Indonesia NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code aoz
languageBranch Timoric languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Timor–Alor–Pantar area NERFINISHED
nameMeaning dry language (in contrast to coastal languages)
primaryStatusInRegion major indigenous language of West Timor
region East Nusa Tenggara NERFINISHED
Timor Island NERFINISHED
scriptUsage primarily written in Latin alphabet for religious and educational materials
spokenBy Atoni people NERFINISHED
Dawan people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
West Timor NERFINISHED
usedAlongside Indonesian language
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
traditional rituals
usedIn local churches in West Timor

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Atoni Meto speaks Uab Meto