Uab Meto 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.A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database.
family
Malayo-Polynesian languages, Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages, Timoric languages
spoken in
Indonesia, West Timor, Oecusse District, East Timor
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