Uab Meto or Dawan is an Austronesian language spoken by Atoni people of West Timor. The language has a variant spoken in the East Timorese exclave of Oecussi-Ambeno, called Baikenu. Baikenu uses words derived from Portuguese, for example, for 'thank you', instead of the Indonesian .
Phonology
Dawan has the following consonants and vowels:
Voiceless plosives can have unreleased allophones in word-final position. A phonemic can be heard in place of among dialects.
Vocabulary
A wordlist of 200 basic vocabulary items is available at the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, with data provided by Robert Blust and from Edwards (2016).