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Where is Bunak spoken?

Bunak (bahasa Bunak) is a Timor-Alor-Pantar language, spoken in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Bunak is spoken

Bunak is spoken in 2 countries: Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Country
Indonesia
Timor-Leste

On the map, Bunak is drawn as an area from Edwards 2020 (Timor). The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18614098), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Bunak.

How many people speak Bunak?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Bunak sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Bunak as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Timor-Alor-Pantar
  2. Bunak

More about Bunak

Codes: ISO 639-3 bfn, Glottolog buna1278. Glottolog macroarea: Papunesia.

Questions about Bunak

Where is Bunak spoken?

Bunak is spoken in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. On the map it is shown as an area from Edwards 2020 (Timor).

Which language family is Bunak in?

Glottolog places Bunak in the Timor-Alor-Pantar family.

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