The Timoric languages are a group of Austronesian languages, belonging to the Central-Eastern subgroup, spoken on the island of Timor, the neighboring island of Wetar, and, depending on the classification used, Southwest Maluku to the east. The group's most widely spoken members are Uab Meto of West Timor, Indonesia, and Tetum of East Timor, each with roughly half a million speakers; Tetum additionally serves as an official language and a lingua franca among non-Tetum-speaking East Timorese.
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