Atauran language

Language spoken in East Timor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Atauran is an Austronesian language spoken on Atauro island and in Manatuto Municipality, East Timor.[2][3] It is closely related to Wetarese and Galoli.

NativetoEast Timor
RegionAtauro, Manatuto
Native speakers
7,900 (2015)[1]
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Atauran
Native toEast Timor
RegionAtauro, Manatuto
Native speakers
7,900 (2015)[1]
Dialects
  • Rasua
  • Raklungu ("Adabe")
  • Hresuk
  • Dadu'a
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3adb
Glottologadab1235  Adabe (spurious)
Atauran is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
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Dialects

Atauran has three main dialects spoken on Atauro:[4]

  • Rasua in the sucos Beloi and Biqueli.
  • Raklungu in the suco Macadade.
  • Hresuk in the suco Maquili.

A fourth variety, Dadu'a, is spoken in Manatuto Municipality on the East Timorese mainland. It is somewhat divergent from the Atauro varieties and has undergone strong influence from Galoli.[5]

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The Raklungu dialect of Atauran, or Kluʼun Hahan Adabe, was mistaken for a Papuan language by Antonio de Almeida (1966) and reported as "Adabe" in Wurm & Hattori (1981).[6] Many subsequent sources propagated this error, showing a Papuan language on Atauro Island.[a] Geoffrey Hull, director of research for the Instituto Nacional de Linguística in East Timor, describes only Wetar varieties being spoken on Ataúro Island, and was unable to find any evidence of a non-Austronesian language there.[2]

Notes

  1. [a]
    The 2013 edition of Ethnologue, for example, showed "Adabe" being spoken on central Atauro, in the area of Raklungu, and lists the population of all three dialects of Atauran as being Papuan Adabe.

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