Uab Meto or Dawan is an Austronesian language spoken by

Atoni The Atoni (also known as the Atoin Meto, Atoin Pah Meto or Dawan) people are an ethnic group on Timor, in Indonesian West Timor and the East Timorese enclave of Oecussi-Ambeno. They number around 844,030. Their language is Uab Meto. The Atoni l ...

people of

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. The language has a variant spoken in the

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ese exclave of

Oecussi-Ambeno Oecusse (also variously ''Oecussi'', ''Ocussi'', ''Oekussi'', ''Oekusi'', ''Okusi'', ''Oé-Cusse''), also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (; ) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno (), is an exclave, mu ...

, called Baikenu. Baikenu uses words derived from Portuguese, for example, ''obrigadu'' for "thank you", instead of the

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''terima kasih''.

Phonology

Dawan has the following consonants and vowels: Voiceless plosives t kcan have unreleased allophones

̚ t̚ k̚ A stop consonant, stop with no audible release, also known as an unreleased stop or an applosive, is a stop consonant with no release burst: no audible indication of the end of its occlusion (hold). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, lack of ...

in word-final position. A phonemic /r/ can be heard in place of /l/ among dialects.

Vocabulary

A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, with data provided by

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and from Edwards (2016).

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External links

Uab Meto SiteUab Meto ResourcesIndonesian – English – Uab Meto Dictionary
Languages of Indonesia Languages of East Timor Timor–Babar languages {{au-lang-stub

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