Also Known As:
Buna, Buna', Bunake, Bunaq
Dialects & Varieties
Finding Bunaq: The homeland and expansion of the Bunaq in central Timor
Antoinette Schapper. 2011. "Finding Bunaq: The Homeland and Expansion of the Bunaq in Central Timor." In Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays, edited by Andrew McWilliam and Elizabeth G. Traube. Australian National University E Press. Online: http://epress.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Land+and+Life+in+Timor-Lest….
Vulnerable
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
80,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speakers
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Comments on speakers
"[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."
Location and Context
Countries
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."
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Number of Other Language Speakers:
Almost all
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Writing Systems
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Recent Resources
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