Bunak

Bunak

The Bunak (also known as Bunaq, Buna', Bunake) are an ethnic group that live in the mountainous region of central Timor, split between the political boundary between West Timor, Indonesia, particularly in Lamaknen District and East Timor. Their language, Bunak language, is one of the few on Timor which is not an Austronesian language, but rather a Papuan language like groups on New Guinea. It is usually put in the proposed language group Trans-New Guinea. They are surrounded by groups which speak Malayo-Polynesian languages, like the Atoni and the Tetum.

According to "Languages of the World" (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977), there were about 100,000 speakers of the language, split evenly between the two nations.

Literature

* Louis Berthe, "Bei Gua: Itinéraire des ancêtres", Paris, 1972.
* Claudine Friedberg, "Boiled Woman and Broiled Man: Myths and Agricultural Rituals of the Bunaq of Central Timor", Edited James J. Fox, "The Flow of Life. Essays on Eastern Indonesia", Harvard University Press, 1980.

External links

* [http://www.icrainternational.org/website/a_document/b_peoples/bunaq_fr.htm ICRA International: - article on endangered ethnicities in East Timor (in French)]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bfn Ethnologue page]


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