Idalaka language
Idalaka | |
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Region | East Timor |
Native speakers | 17,000 (2010 census)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: idt – Idaté lka – Lakalei |
Glottolog |
east2733 [2] |
Distribution of Idaté mother-tongue speakers in East Timor | |
Distribution of Lakalai Distribution of Isní Distribution of Lolein Distribution of Idalaka |
Idalaka is a dialect chain spoken in East Timor. The dialects are spoken in the Ramelau mountains with the exception of endangered Lolein, which is spoken in Dili. Idalaka resembles the Kemak language in that there are archaic features such as personal prefixes in verbs. Idalaka is one of 15 recognized national languages of East Timor. The name is a portmanteau of Idaté and Lakalai.
References
- ↑ Idaté at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Lakalei at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Eastern Timoric B". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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