Amarasi language

Amarasi
Amarasi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Timor
Native speakers	70,000 (2011)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timoric West Timor Atoni Amarasi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aaz
Glottolog	amar1273
ELP	Amarasi

Amarasi is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of West Timor, and is spoken by the Amarasi. The Amarasi language has about 80,000 native speakers, with four main dialects called Ro'is, Kotos, Tais Nonof, and Ketun, though many differences exist between individual villages. It uses Subject-Object-Verb grammar structure. Speakers are interspersed with those of Helong.

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