• Source: Welaun language

Welaun (also known as Bekais or Wekais) is an Austronesian language spoken on the border of East Timor and West Timor (a part of Indonesia). It is closely related to Tetun.




Previous studies


Welaun was documented by Hull (2003) and Edwards (2019). Edwards (2019) estimates a speaker population of 5,575. A dictionary of Welaun has been written by da Silva (2012).




Phonology



It has five vowels: /i e a o u/




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bahasa Welaun
• Rumpun bahasa Timor–Babar
• Welaun language
• Indonesian language
• Malay language
• Timoric languages
• Languages of Indonesia
• Cia-Cia language
• Sundanese language
• Batak Simalungun language
• Teor-Kur language
• Javanese language