Alternate Names: Timor Amarasi, Uab Meto
Dialects: Kotos, Ro’is, Ro’is Hero (Kopa), Ro’is Tais Nonof. Part of Uab Meto language chain. Reportedly similar to Uab Meto , but with differences in phonology, vocabulary, and discourse, with semantic shifts, structural differences, intelligibility problems. Ro’is Tais Nonof dialect has intonation like Ro’is dialect, vocabulary like Kotos dialect.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 70,000 (2011 UBB-GMIT).
Language Development: Poetry. Newspapers. Bible portions: 2002–2011.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: Interspersed with Helong ,. Most literature in Kotos dialect. Christian.