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Bunak language

The Bunak language (also known as Bunaq, Buna', Bunake, pronounced [bunaʔ]) is the language of the Bunak people of the mountainous region of central Timor, split between the political boundary between West Timor, Indonesia, particularly in Lamaknen District and East Timor. It is one of the few on Timor which is not an Austronesian language, but rather a Papuan language of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family. The language is surrounded by Malayo-Polynesian languages, like Uab Meto and Tetum.

Bunak

Indonesia, East Timor

central Timor

Bunak

76,000 (2010)[1]

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Bunak

Bunak distinguishes between animate and inanimate noun classes.[3]

Plosive sounds /p t k/ can be heard as unreleased allophones [p̚ t̚ k̚], in word-final position.

Schapper, Antoinette (2009). Bunaq: A Papuan Language of Central Timor (Ph.D. thesis). Australian National University. :10.25911/5d611d87406d0. hdl:1885/150147.

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Schapper, Antoinette (2011a). . Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia. 13 (1): 29–49. doi:10.17510/wjhi.v13i1.8.

"Crossing the border: Historical and linguistic divides among the Bunaq in central Timor"

Schapper, Antoinette (2011b). "Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor". In McWilliam, Andrew; Traube, Elizabeth G. (eds.). . ANU Press. doi:10.22459/lltl.12.2011.08. ISBN 978-1-921862-59-5.

Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays

Schapper, Antoinette (2022). . Mouton Grammar Library. Vol. 86. Mouton deGruyter. ISBN 9783110714500.

A Grammar of Bunaq

ELAR archive of

Zapal, an oral literature genre of the Bunaq Lamaknen

Timothy Usher, New Guinea World,

Bunaq