Atauran language

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Atauran
Native to
Atauro Island
Native speakers
7,900 (2015)[1]
Dialects
  • Rasua
  • Raklungu
  • Hresuk
  • Dadu'a
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3Atauran

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
.

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]

Adabe "language"

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. ^ 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.

References

  1. ^ Atauran at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Hull, Geoffrey (2002), The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts (PDF), Instituto Nacional de Linguística, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa'e
  3. doi:10.1515/9789048544448-006
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  4. ^ Boarccaech, Alessandro (2013). A diferença entre os iguais. São Paolo: Porto de Idéias.
  5. ^ Miller, Kirk (2019). ISO 639-3 Registration Authority: Request for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code.
  6. ^ Wurm, S. A.; Hattori, S. (1981). Language atlas of the Pacific area, part 1 and 2. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, 66 and 67. Canberra: Australian National University.

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