Kemak
Region	East Timor
Ethnicity	Kemak
Native speakers	72,000 (2010 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timoric Ramelaic West Kemak
Official status
Recognised minority language in	East Timor
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kem
Glottolog	kema1243
ELP	Kemak
Distribution of Kemak mother-tongue speakers in East Timor

Kemak is alanguage spoken in East Timor and in the border region ofIndonesianWest Timor. An alternate name isEma. It is most closely related toTocodede andMambai. It has the status of one of the national languages in the East Timor constitution, besides the official languages ofPortuguese andTetum. The number of speakers has fallen in recent years.

• Sounds /b, ɡ/ can be heard as [β, ɣ] when in intervocalic position.
• /t/ can have an allophone of [tsʰ] freely in initial position, and [tʃʰ] when before /i/.
• /s/ can be heard as [z] when in voicing assimilation, and as [tʃʰ] when preceded by /n̪/.
• /t, k/ have aspirated allophones of [kʰ, tʰ].
• /ɡ, h/ are heard as [ɡʷ, ɸ] when before /u/.

• /e, a/ can be heard as [ɪ, ɤ] when preceding or following /u/ within a syllable.
• /o, u/ can be heard as [ɔ, ɯ] when after labial consonants.^[2]

• Kaipuleohone's collection ofRobert Blust's materials includenotes on Kemak

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