Uab Meto language

Uab Meto
Uab Metô
Native to	Indonesia, East Timor
Region	West Timor, Oecusse
Native speakers	800,000 (2009–2011)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern? Central? Timoric Rote–Meto West Rote–Meto Meto–Amarasi Uab Meto
Official status
Recognised minority language in	East Timor
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: aoz – Uab Meto bkx – Baikeno
Glottolog	uabm1237
ELP	Uab Meto
	Baikeno[2]
Map of the Meto language cluster according to Edwards (2020)

Uab Meto or Dawan is an Austronesian language cluster spoken by the Atoni people of the Indonesian region of West Timor, as well as the East Timorese municipality of Oecussi-Ambeno.

In East Timor and other Portuguese-speaking countries the language is often called Baikenu (Portuguese: baiqueno), but more narrowly this term refers only to the variety spoken in East Timor, which is more influenced by Portuguese rather than Indonesian (for example, using obrigadu for 'thank you', instead of the Indonesian terima kasih).^[3] In other languages it may also be erroneously referred to as West Timorese (with Tetum being "East Timorese") or even just Timorese, but these terms are misleading, as they ignore the linguistic diversity on both sides of the island.