Amarasi
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A language of Indonesia
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Timor Amarasi, Uab Meto
Population
70,000 (2011 Unit Bahasa dan Budaya - Gereja Masehi Injili di Timor (UBB-GMIT)).
Location
Nusa Tenggara Timur province: Kupang regency, Timor island southwest tip; Timur sea near Benini point east to Ela point, interior as far north as Oesa town; 80 villages. Dialects: central and east (Kotos), west (Ro’is ), south (Ro’is Tais Nonof), Kota Kupang area (Ro’is Hero).
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Language Status
5 (Developing).
Classification
Dialects
Kotos, Ro’is, Ro’is Tais Nonof, Ro’is Hero (Kopa). Part of Uab Meto language chain. Reportedly similar to Uab Meto [aoz] but with differences in phonology, vocabulary, and discourse, with semantic shifts, structural differences, intelligibility problems. Ro’is Tais Nonof dialect has intonation like Ro’is dialect, vocabulary like Kotos dialect.
Language Development
Literature. Newspapers. Texts. NT: 2015.
Language Resources
Writing
Latin script [Latn].
Interspersed with Helong [heg]. Most literature in Kotos dialect. Christian.