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Wetarese is an Austronesian language of Wetar, an island in the south Maluku, Indonesia, and of the nearby islands Liran and Atauro, the latter island separate from the mainland of East Timor, north of Dili.[2]

Wetarese
Wetar
Tutunohan
Native to	East Timor, Indonesia
Region	Wetar Island, Atauro Island, Laclo
Native speakers	(11,000 cited 1990–2010)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timoric Wetar–Galoli Wetarese
Official status
Recognised minority language in	East Timor
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: apx – Aputai ilu – Iliʼuun wet – Parai tzn – Tugun adb – Atauran
Glottolog	weta1245
ELP	Aputai

Background

The four identified principal varieties of Wetarese on Wetar – Aputai, Iliʼuun, Parai and Tugun – are distinct enough that some may consider them to be different languages. Half of Wetarese speakers live on the island of Atauro in East Timor, where three closely related dialects (presumably of Iliʼuun) are spoken: 'Rahesuk' (Rasua) in the center, 'Resuk' (Hresuk) in the southeast, and 'Adabe' (Raklungu) in the southwest.[2] Daduʼa in the extreme north is a subdialect of Rahesuk, and has been reported to be intelligible with the Iliʼuun of Liran Island. About half the Daduʼa population has moved to Timor, on the coast of Manatuto district, where it has undergone influence from Galoli.[3]

Wetarese is closely related to Galoli, spoken on the north coast of East Timor and by an immigrant community on the south coast of Wetar.

Adabe "language"

The Raklungu dialect of Atauro, or Kluʼun Hahan Adabe, was mistaken for a Papuan language by Antonio de Almeida (1966) and reported as "Adabe" in Wurm & Hattori (1981). Many subsequent sources propagated this error, showing a Papuan language on Atauro Island.[4] Geoffrey Hull, director of research for the Instituto Nacional de Linguística in East Timor, describes only Wetarese being spoken on Ataúro Island, and was unable to find any evidence of a non-Austronesian language there.[2]

Phonology

The following represents the Tugun dialect:[5]

Consonants

Consonant phonemes[5]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
	voiced			dʒ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s			h
	voiced	v
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Tap/Trill			ɾ ~ r
Lateral			l

• /v/ may also be heard as [w] in free variation.[5]

• /r/ is mainly heard as [r] in word-final position or in slower speech, it is heard as [ɾ] elsewhere.[5]

• /ʔ/ only occurs in word-medial positions.[5]

Vowels

Vowel phonemes[5]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open		a

• Sounds /e u/ are also heard as [ɛ ʊ].[5]

Citations

References

External links

• Survey of languages of East Timor

На других языках

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[de] Wetar (Sprache)

Wetar (Atauru, Wetaresisch, Raklu-Un, Raklu Un) ist eine malayo-polynesische Sprache, die auf den indonesischen Inseln Wetar und Liran (Lirang) und auf der zu Osttimor gehörenden Insel Atauro gesprochen wird.[2] Hier wird die Sprache auch Atauru genannt.

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- [en] Wetarese language

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[ru] Ветарский язык

Ветарский, или перайский язык (Atauru, Adabe, Tutunohan) — австронезийский язык, на котором говорят севернее деревень Монинг, Тимор, Ухак на северо-восточном побережье острова Ветар на юго-западе провинции Малуку в Индонезии, а также на близлежащих островах Атауро и Лиран, последний принадлежит Восточному Тимору.

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