Uab Meto or Dawan is an Austronesian language spoken by Atoni people of West Timor . The language has a variant spoken in the East Timorese exclave of Oecussi-Ambeno , called Baikenu. Baikenu uses words derived from Portuguese , for example, obrigadu for 'thank you', instead of the Indonesian terima kasih .
5-525: Dawan has the following consonants and vowels: Voiceless plosives [p t k] can have unreleased allophones [p̚ t̚ k̚] in word-final position. A phonemic /r/ can be heard in place of /l/ among dialects. A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, with data provided by Robert Blust and from Edwards (2016). This Austronesian languages -related article
10-665: A Thao -English dictionary (2003). Another one of his well-known works is a 2009 work called The Austronesian Languages , which is the first single-authored book to cover all aspects ( phonology , syntax , morphology , sound changes , classification , etc.) of the Austronesian language family in its entirety. As part of his field work, Blust studied 97 Austronesian languages spoken in locations such as Sarawak , Papua New Guinea , and Taiwan . In Taiwan, he performed field work on Formosan languages such as Thao , Kavalan , Pazeh , Amis , Paiwan and Saisiyat . His dictionary of
15-485: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Robert Blust Robert A. Blust ( / b l ʌ s t / ; Chinese : 白樂思 ; pinyin : Bái Lèsī ; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022 ) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics , lexicography and ethnology . He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . Blust specialized in
20-719: The Austronesian languages and made major contributions to the field of Austronesian linguistics. Blust was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 9, 1940, and raised in California . He received both a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology in 1967 and a PhD in linguistics in 1974 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He taught at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1976 to 1984, after which he returned to
25-575: The Department of Linguistics at Mānoa for the rest of his career, serving as department chair from 2005 to 2008. He was a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America . Until 2018, he served as the review editor for Oceanic Linguistics , an academic journal that covers the Austronesian languages . Blust is best known for his work on this large language family, including the comprehensive Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (1995) and
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