Wetarese language
Spoken in
- Austronesian
- Malayo - Polynesian languages
- Central Malayo -Polynesian
- Timor- Flores
- Timor
- Fabronische languages
- Wetar
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Wetar ( Atauru, Wetaresisch, Raklu -Un, Un Raklu ) is a Malayo - Polynesian language, on the Indonesian islands Wetar and Liran ( Lirang ) and is spoken on the island of Atauro, East Timor, belonging to. The language is also called Atauru.
Basic
Wetar is closely related to Galoli and just like this one recognized by the Constitution of 15 national languages of East Timor. But was influenced by the Malay wetar more than Galoli.
Wetar
On Wetar five dialects are spoken, which are listed in Ethnologue as separate languages:
- Aputai ( Ilputih, Opotai, Tutunohan ) in the villages Ilputih and Lurang on the coast Wetars.
- Ili'uun ( Iliun, Hahutau, Hahutan, Limera, Ilmaumau, Erai ) in the villages of Telemar, Karbubu, Klishatu, Ilmaumau, Erai ( Eray ), Nabar and Esulit at the west end of the village and Wetars Istutun on the island Lirang.
- Perai ( Tutunohan ) in the villages and Uhak Moning on the north coast Wetars.
- Talur ( Ilwaki, Iliwaki, Galoleng, Lir Talo, Ilmedu ) in the villages Ilputih (a) and Ilwaki the southern center Wetars.
- Tugun ( Tutunohan, Mahuan ) in the villages Mahuan, Masapun, Tomliapat, Ilpokil, Kahailin, Ilway and Arwala at the southeast end Wetars.
East Timor
On Atauro three dialects are spoken Wetar: Rahesuk in the north ( 1,015 speakers ), Resuk ( Hresuk ) in the Southeast ( 1691 ) and Raklungu in the Southwest ( 2220 ). A fourth dialect Dadu'a is spoken by 1,400 descendants of a group of residents Atauros, who emigrated in villages in the district Manatuto on Timor. More 1656 Dadu'a - speakers live in the District of Dili (total: 3,146 Dadu'a - native speaker ), many of them on Atauro in Suco Biqueli. In East Timor, a total of 8,219 designate one of the Wetar dialects as their mother tongue.
For confusion Ethnologue, which represents the Papuan language Adabe also as Atauru provides, locates Raklu -Un as a synonym and the speaker on Atauro. According to the census of 2010 Adabe - speakers live but mostly on Timor.
The following maps indicate the proportion of native speakers of different dialects in the Sucos East Timor. This one was based on the self-reported. The collective headings specify the language Atauru was used only on Timor, but not on Atauro.
- Proportion of native speakers of different dialects in the Sucos East Timor ( 2010 census )
Dadu'a
Rahesuk
Raklungu
Resuk