Adabe language

Spoken in

• Papuan Trans - New Guinea languages Timor- Alor - pantar Timor

Adb

Adabe is a Papuan language in East Timor.

Background

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 in East Timor under the collective name of Atauro the status of a national language.

Ethnologue indicates that the Papua New language is spoken on the island of Atauro Adabe of about 5,000 people. Another name by Ethnologue the language would Raklu - Un.

Geoffrey Hull, the former research director of the Instituto Nacional de Linguistica East Timor, only mentions the Austronesian Wetar dialects as languages ​​on the island, the Ethnologue impute the Galoli. Raklungu is one of these dialects to Hull. Adabe is not mentioned at all. According to the census of 2010 in East Timor, in which the residents were asked about their own name on their native language, told 181 people, they would speak Adabe. Most of them live in the west of the district and the district Manatuto Liquiçá. Everywhere the Adabe - Specher form very small minority with at most a few dozen speakers in the various districts of East Timor. On Atauro there after the census no Adabe spokesman. Other sources also confirm that the Papua Adabe language is not spoken on Atauro. Adabe has no official status in East Timor.