Timorese Dawan

E809237

Timorese Dawan is an Austronesian language spoken primarily by the Atoni people in the western part of Timor Island, including areas of Indonesian West Timor and nearby regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Timorese Dawan canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Malayo-Polynesian language
language
alternateName Dawan
Meto
Uab Meto
associatedEthnicity Atoni Meto
closelyRelatedTo Helong
Tetun
linked to: Tetun language
country Indonesia
ethnologueStatus developing language
glottocode dawa1253
hasAlternativeClassification Timor–Babar languages
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasDialect East Dawan
linked to: Dawan

Kupang Dawan
North Central Dawan
South Central Dawan
hasLoanwordsFrom Dutch
Indonesian
Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNumeralSystem decimal
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
hasStressPattern predominantly penultimate stress
iso639-3Code aoz
languageFamily Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Timoric languages
primaryWritingSystem Latin script
region western Timor
spokenBy Atoni people
spokenIn Belu Regency
East Nusa Tenggara
Indonesian West Timor
linked to: East Nusa Tenggara

Kupang Regency
Timor Island
linked to: Timor

Timor Tengah Selatan Regency
Timor Tengah Utara Regency
West Timor
usedAs vernacular language
usedIn local education
oral literature
religious practice

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Dawan language alternativeName Timorese Dawan
Uab Meto alternativeName Timorese Dawan