Waimoa language

Waimoa
Spoken in	Northeast East Timor
Native speakers	3,000 (date missing)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Central–Eastern MP Timor–Babar Nuclear Timor ? Waima'a Waimoa; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wmh
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Languages on Timor island

Waimoa or Waima'a is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 3,000 people in northeast East Timor. It is reported to be mutually intelligible with Kairui-Midiki. Waimoa is one of four languages, which are united called Kawaimina.

[edit] Phonology

Waimoa is one of only two Austronesian languages known to have a set of ejective stops, the other being Yapese:

	Bilabial	Coronal	Velar	Glottal
Voiceless unaspirated	p	t	k	ʔ
Voiceless aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	kʰ
Voiceless ejective	pʼ	tʼ	kʼ
Voiced plain	b	d	ɡ

Hajek, John; Bowden, John (June 2002). "A Phonological Oddity in the Austronesian Area: Ejectives in Waimoa". Oceanic Linguistics 41 (1): 222–224. doi:10.1353/ol.2002.0021.

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