Midiki

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Midiki

Spoken in

East Timor
speaker 14,616 ( as of 2015 )
Linguistic
classification
  • Midiki
Official status
Other official status in East TimorEast Timor East Timor
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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Midiki ( Mideki , local: Osomoko or Oso Moko ) is, depending on the definition, a dialect or language of the ethnic group of the same name in southeastern East Timor . Together with Kairui , Waimaha and Naueti , it is combined to form the language / language group Kawaimina , which has the status of a national language in East Timor .

overview

The Kawaimina languages ​​belong to the Timor branch of the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages . Because of their proximity to the Papuan languages , specifically Makasae, there are some borrowings. The languages ​​fall through both anarchic and unusual linguistic innovations, such as vowel harmony , aspiration and post-glottalization in consonants in their sound system. The structure of the grammar is generally very simple, with the exception of the Naueti.

Midiki is spoken in the administrative offices of Lacluta and Venilale and in Suco Liaruca . Some Midiki speakers near Ossu in Viqueque parish call their language Osomoko . In some areas, Midiki and Kairui are spoken alternately. In the 2015 census, 14,616 East Timorese were their mother tongue (8,554 from Baucau , 383 from Dili , 1,044 from Manatuto and 4,527 from Viqueque). When counting, it is difficult to distinguish between native speakers of Kairui and Midiki, as they sometimes refer to themselves as Waimaha speakers.

Ethnologue assigns Osomoko as a dialect to Naueti and combines Midiki and Kairui as one language.

Language examples

The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. [5]  and number of speakers of the various languages ​​in the individual municipalities (as of 2015). The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. [5]  and number of speakers of the various languages ​​in the individual municipalities (as of 2015).
The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. and number of speakers of the various languages ​​in the individual communities (as of 2015).
Proportion of Midiki native speakers in the Sucos East Timors (2010)
The numbers in the various dialects of the Kawaimina dialects
number Midiki
1 se
2 kairuo
3 kaitelu
4th kaihaa
5 kailime
6th kainee
7th kaihitu
8th kaikaha
9 kaisiwe
10 base

Individual evidence

  1. a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ^ The Languages ​​of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
  3. John Bowden and Tatiana Romanovsky: Assessing the degree of language endangerment using Rapid Rural Appraisal techniques (PDF file; 161 kB)
  4. Ethnologue Kairui-Midiki
  5. Statistical Office of East Timor, results of the 2010 census of the individual sucos ( Memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Census 2010; PDF file; 21.53 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dne.mof.gov.tl