The Timor-Babar languages are a group of fifty Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on the islands of Timor, neighboring Wetar, and the Babar Islands to the east. The numerically most important languages are Uab Meto of West Timor and Tetum of East Timor, each with about half a million speakers, though the number of Tetum is rapidly growing.

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  • The Timor-Babar languages are a group of fifty Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on the islands of Timor, neighboring Wetar, and the Babar Islands to the east. The numerically most important languages are Uab Meto of West Timor and Tetum of East Timor, each with about half a million speakers, though the number of Tetum is rapidly growing.
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  • Timor
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  • Nuclear Timor ?
  • Southwest Maluku
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  • Austronesian
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  • Timor-Babar
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  • The Timor-Babar languages are a group of fifty Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on the islands of Timor, neighboring Wetar, and the Babar Islands to the east. The numerically most important languages are Uab Meto of West Timor and Tetum of East Timor, each with about half a million speakers, though the number of Tetum is rapidly growing.
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  • Timor-Babar languages
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