Mambai language (Timor)

Mambai
Region East Timor
Native speakers
 130,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mgm
Glottolog mamb1306[2]
Distribution of Mambai mother-tongue speakers in East Timor
An illustration of Tetum language (left), Mambai language (center) and Portuguese language (right) being compared to one another.

Mambai language is spoken by the second largest ethnic group in East Timor, the Mambai people. The language is also called Mambae or Manbae.

References

  1. ↑ Mambai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mambae". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Further reading

  • Geoffrey Hull, Celestino de Araújo, and Benjamim de Araújo e Corte-Real, Mambai Language Manual: Ainaro dialect, Sebastião Aparício da Silva Project, 2001.
  • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Robert M. W. Dixon (eds), Grammars in contact: a cross-linguistic typology, Oxford University Press, 2006, Chapter 6.
  • Helem Andressa de Oliveira Fogaça (29 Apr 2013), Estudo fonético e fonológico do mambae de Same : uma língua de Timor-Leste (PDF), Universidade de Brasília
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