Timor-Flores languages
| Timor-Flores languages | ||
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Spoken in |
Indonesia , East Timor | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in |
 East Timor
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The approximately 41 Timor-Flores languages form a language family of the Austronesian languages . They are spoken on the Lesser Sunda Islands . The most commonly spoken languages in the language family are to Timor languages belonging Tetum and Uab Meto .
classification
The Timor-Flores languages are part of the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages and thus belong to the Malayo-Polynesian languages .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )