• Vulnerable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 100,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  50,000

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  50,000 in East Timor (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977).

PLACES

East Timor; Indonesia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Central interior Timor Island, south coast. Also in Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara).

• Vulnerable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 80,000

  Native speakers worldwide

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"[The Bunaq people] are surrounded on all sides by Austronesian languages: Kemak to the north, Mambai to the east and Tetun to the south and west... while Bunaq is rarely learnt by non-Bunaq, almost all Bunaq are fluent in at least one Austronesian language."

PLACES

East Timor

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

"Today the Bunaq-speaking area (Map 8.1) extends in the north from Maliana down to portions of the southern coast of Timor-Leste; it stretches east from the eastern edges of southern Belu regency in West Timor into the western edge of Manufahi subdistrict in Timor-Leste."