Atauran language

{{Infobox language

| name = Atauran

| altname =

| nativename =

| states = East Timor

| region = Atauro, Manatuto

| speakers = {{sigfig|7,850|2}}

| date = 2015

| ref = e27

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Central–Eastern

| fam4 = Timoric

| fam5 = Wetar–Galoli

| minority = East Timor

| iso3 = adb

| dia1 = Rasua

| dia2 = Raklungu ("Adabe")

| dia3 = Hresuk

| dia4 = Dadu'a

| map = File:Sprachen Osttimors en.tif

| glotto = adab1235

| glottoname = Adabe (spurious)

| map2 = Lang Status 80-VU.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Atauran is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

Atauran is an Austronesian language spoken on Atauro island and in Manatuto Municipality, East Timor.{{Citation |last=Hull |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Hull|title=The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts |date=2002 |url=http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/default/CommunityGovernanceDocuments/The_Languages_of_East_Timor_Some_Basic_Facts.pdf |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Linguística, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa'e}}{{cite book |last=Boarccaech |first=Alessandro |chapter=Spirits Live Among Us: Mythology, the Hero's Journey, and the Supernatural World in a Community in Ataúro |title=The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste |editor1=Lia Kent |editor2=Rui Feijo |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |year=2020 |pages=91–114 |doi=10.1515/9789048544448-006}} It is closely related to Wetarese and Galoli.

Dialects

Atauran has three main dialects spoken on Atauro:{{cite book |last=Boarccaech |first=Alessandro |year=2013 |title=A diferença entre os iguais |location=São Paolo |publisher=Porto de Idéias}}

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.Miller, Kirk (2019). [https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2019/2019-053.pdf ISO 639-3 Registration Authority: Request for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code].

{{vanchor|Adabe}} "language"

The Raklungu dialect of Atauran, or Klu{{hamza}}un Hahan Adabe, was mistaken for a Papuan language by Antonio de Almeida (1966) and reported as "Adabe" in Wurm & Hattori (1981).{{cite book |last1=Wurm |first1=S. A. |last2=Hattori |first2=S. |year=1981 |title=Language atlas of the Pacific area, part 1 and 2. |series=Pacific Linguistics, Series C, 66 and 67 |location=Canberra |publisher=Australian National University}} Many subsequent sources propagated this error, showing a Papuan language on Atauro Island.{{efn|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.}} 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.

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References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080720024316/http://www.asianlang.mq.edu.au/INL/langs.html Survey of languages of East Timor]

Category:Timor–Babar languages

Category:Languages of Timor-Leste

Category:Vulnerable languages

Category:Endangered Austronesian languages

Category:Endangered languages of Asia