Adabe

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Adabe (Atauru)

Spoken in

East Timor
speaker 260 (as of 2015)
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

adb

Adabe is a Papuan language in East Timor .

background

Number of speakers of the different languages ​​in the individual municipalities (as of 2015).

Adabe is also sometimes referred to as Atauru , which leads to confusion with the dialects of the Austronesian language Wetar , which are spoken on the island of Atauro and have the status of a national language in East Timor under the collective name Atauro .

Ethnologue states that the Papuan language Adabe is spoken by around 5,000 people on the island of Atauro. Another name for the language after Ethnologue would be Raklu-Un .

Geoffrey Hull , the former research director of the Instituto Nacional de Linguística East Timors , only names the Austronesian Wetar dialects as languages ​​on the island, which Ethnologue ascribes to Galoli . Raklungu is one of these dialects according to Hull. Adabe is not mentioned at all. According to the 2015 East Timor census, where residents were asked what their own name for their mother tongue was, 260 people said they spoke Adabe. Most of them live in the west of Manatuto Municipality and Liquiçá Municipality . Everywhere the Adabe speakers form very small minorities with a maximum of a few dozen speakers in the various communities of East Timor. According to the census, there are no Adabe speakers on Atauro. Other sources confirm that no Papuan languages ​​are spoken on Atauro. The mistake was probably caused by a misinterpretation of a missionary report in 1982.

Adabe has no official status in East Timor.


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b ethnologue: adb
  3. ^ Geoffrey Hull : The Languages ​​of East Timor. Some Basic Facts , Instituto Nacional de Linguística, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa'e ( Memento from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 203 kB)
  4. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Results of the 2010 census ( memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of the individual sucos (tetum)
  5. ^ John Hajek: Towards a Language History of East Timor ( Memento of December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 87 kB), Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica - Università di Firenze 10 (2000): 213-227
  6. ^ Wurm, Stephen A. & Shirô Hattori (ed.). 1982. Language atlas of the Pacific area. Part 1: New Guinea area, Oceania, Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-66.
  7. ↑ v. Schapper, Antoinette (Ed.): The Papuan Languages ​​of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 . De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] 2014, ISBN 978-1-61451-524-1 .