Kairui-Midiki
Region	Northeast East Timor
Native speakers	18,600: 14,600 Midiki and 4,000 Kairui (2015 census)[1] 4,500 (2015 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timoric Kawaimina Kairui-Midiki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	krd
Glottolog	kair1265
ELP	Kairui-Midiki
Distribution of Midiki
Distribution of Kairui
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Kairui-Midiki is a language of East Timor spoken by 23,000 people in 2015, primarily in Venilale Administrative Post in Baucau.^[1]

Kairui-Midiki is closely related to the Waima'a and Naueti languages. These four varieties' level of mutual intelligibility has led some to categorize them as dialects of a single language: Kawaimina.^[2]

Kairui and Midiki were listed separately in the Timor-Leste 2010 Census, but are often considered dialects of a single language, in the literature named Kairui-Midiki.^[3]

Some Midiki speakers near Ossu refer to their language as Osomoko.^{[citation needed]}

Phonology

The language is noted for unusual phonological innovations compared to other Timoric languages, including vowel harmony, aspirated and glottalized consonants, and voiceless sonorants in their sound-systems.^[2] A small number of other languages in the greater Timor region also attest voiceless sonorants, aspirated stops, and glottalized consonants. These languages are Waima'a, Naueti, Semau Helong, and Meto. In Midiki, as in Waima'a and Naueti, these consonants only occur at the juncture of a prosodic foot.^[4]

Examples