Wetar (language)

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Wetar (Atauru)

Spoken in

Indonesia , East Timor
speaker 9,583 in East Timor (as of 2015)
? Indonesia
Linguistic
classification
  • Wetar
Official status
Other official status in East TimorEast Timor East Timor ( national language )
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

map

ISO 639-3

adb

Wetar ( Atauru, Wetaresisch, Raklu-Un, Raklu Un ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian islands of Wetar and Liran (Lirang) and on the East Timor island of Atauro . Here the language is also called Atauru.

Basics

Wetar is closely related to Galoli and, like Galoli, is one of the 15 national languages ​​of East Timor recognized by the constitution . Wetar was influenced by Malay more than Galoli .

Wetar

Five dialects are spoken on Wetar, which are listed as separate languages ​​by Ethnologue:

  • Aputai (Ilputih, Opotai, Tutunohan) in the villages of Ilputih and Lurang on the Wetar coast.
  • Ili'uun (Iliun, Hahutau, Hahutan, Limera, Ilmaumau, Erai) in the villages of Telemar, Karbubu, Klishatu, Ilmaumau, Erai (Eray), Nabar and Esulit at the western end of Wetar and in the village of Istutun on the island of Lirang.
  • Perai (Tutunohan) in the villages of Uhak and Moning on the north coast of Wetar.
  • Talur (Ilwaki, Iliwaki, Galoleng, Lir Talo, Ilmedu) in the villages of Ilputih (a) and Ilwaki in the southern center of Wetar.
  • Tugun (Tutunohan, Mahuan) in the villages of Mahuan, Masapun, Tomliapat, Ilpokil, Kahailin, Ilway and Arwala at the southeast end of Wetars.

East Timor

The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors.
Number of speakers of the different languages ​​in the individual municipalities (as of 2015).

The Wetar language is called Atauru in East Timor , after the island of Atauro that belongs to the country. Three of their dialects are spoken on it: Rahesuk in the north (2,331 native speakers throughout East Timor), Resuk ( Hresuk ) in the southeast (3,168) and Raklungu in the southwest (1,852). A fourth dialect, Dadu'a , is spoken in the villages of Ili-Mano and Behedan by 1,863 descendants of a group of Atauros who emigrated to the municipality of Manatuto in Timor. Another 35 Dadu'a speakers live in the community of Dili (a total of 1,990 Dadu'a native speakers), many of them on Atauro in Suco Biqueli . In East Timor a total of 9,583 designate one of the Wetar dialects as their mother tongue.

Ethnologue , which also refers to the Papuan language Adabe as Atauru , Raklu-Un as a synonym and locates the speakers on Atauro, causes confusion . According to the censuses, Adabe speakers mostly live on the island of Timor.

The following maps show the proportion of native speakers of the various dialects in the Sucos of East Timors. This was based on the respondents' own information. The collective names of the Atauru language were only used on Timor, but not on Atauro.

  • Proportion of native speakers of the different dialects in the Sucos East Timors (2010 census)

  • Atauru

  • Dadu'a

  • Rahesuk

  • Raklungu

  • Resuk

Language examples

Numbers in the different dialects on Atauro
number Rahesuk Resuk Raklungu
1 iha hia hea
2 barua harua herua
3 batelu hatelu hetelu
4th waa haát heát
5 balima halima helima
6th baneen haneen heneen
7th baítu haítu heítu
8th pawau ha'au he'au
9 pasia Hare hesé
10 sanulu sangulu sengulu

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d Geoffrey Hull : The Languages ​​of East Timor. Some Basic Facts , Instituto Nacional de Linguística, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa'e ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 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. (PDF file; 203 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ramelau.com
  3. ↑ a b ethnologue: ilu
  4. ↑ ethnologue: wet
  5. ↑ ethnologue: ilw
  6. ↑ ethnologue: tzn
  7. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Results of the 2010 census of the individual sucos ( Memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (tetum)
  8. ↑ ethnologue: adb
  9. ↑ Timor-Leste Ministry of Finance: Suco Reports, according to Census 2010 ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )