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Makasae language

Makasae (also known as Makassai, Macassai, Ma'asae, Makasai) is a Papuan language spoken by about 100,000 people in the eastern part of East Timor, in the districts of Baucau and Viqueque, just to the west of Fataluku. It is the most widely spoken Papuan language west of New Guinea.

Makasae

East Timor

Timor Island, eastern end around Baucau and inland, west of Fataluku, from northern to southern coast in a dialect chain.

102,000 (2010 census)[1]

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Huber, Juliette (2008). First steps towards a grammar of Makasae: a language of East Timor. LINCOM

Correia, Aderito (2011). (Ph.D. thesis). University of Western Sydney.

Describing Makasae: a trans-New Guinea language of East Timor

Fogaça, Jessé Silveira (2011). [Phonetics and phonology of the Makasae language] (Master's thesis) (in Portuguese). University of Brasília.

Fonética e fonologia da língua Makasae

Fogaça, Jessé Silveira (2015). Aspectos gramaticais da língua makasae de timor-leste : fonologia, morfologia e sintaxe [Grammar aspects of the East Timorese Makasae language: phonology, morphology and syntax] (Doctor's thesis) (in Portuguese). University of Brasília. :10.26512/2015.11.T.20168.

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