Uab Meto language

"aoz" redirects here. For other uses, see AOZ.
Uab Meto
Uab Metô
Native toIndonesia, East Timor
RegionWest Timor, Oecusse
Native speakers
800,000 (2009–2011)[1]
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
aoz – Uab Meto
bkx – Baikeno
Glottologuabm1237
ELPUab Meto
 Baikeno[2]
Map of the Meto language cluster[3]

Uab Meto or Dawan is an Austronesian language spoken by Atoni people of West Timor. The language has a variant spoken in the East Timorese exclave of Oecussi-Ambeno, called Baikenu. Baikenu uses words derived from Portuguese, for example, obrigadu for 'thank you', instead of the Indonesian terima kasih.[4]

  1. ^ Uab Meto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Baikeno at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Baikeno.
  3. ^ Edwards, Owen (2020). Metathesis and Unmetathesis in Amarasi. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3700413. ISBN 978-3-96110-223-5.
  4. ^ "Dawan (Uab Meto)". omniglot.com.