JURNAL JUPENSI Vol 2 No. 3 (DESEMBER 2022) – E-ISSN : 2827-8860 P-ISSN : 2827-8852 Jurnal Pendidikan dan Sastra Inggris Halaman Jurnal :https://ejurnal.politeknikpratama.ac.id/index.php/JUPENSI Halaman UTAMA: https://ejurnal.politeknikpratama.ac.id/index.php QUESTION WORDS IN MOLLO DIALECT OF UAB METO SPOKEN IN NUNBENA VILLAGE, SOUTH CENTRAL TIMOR REGENCY Juanto Canceriady Nalle (1) , Yanpitherzon Liunokas (2) Elisna Huan 3) Gracia M. N. Otta (4) E-mail : yanpiters69@gmail.com (2) , elisna@staf.undana.ac.id (3) , gracia.otta@staf.undana.ac.id (4) Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, FKIP, Universitas Nusa Cendana ABSTRACT This study is entitled: Question Words In Mollo Dialect Of Uab Meto Spoken In Nunbena Village, South Central Timor Regency. The problems of this study is to find out the question words and their function in Mollo dialect of Uab Meto spoken in Nunbena Village, South Central Timor Regency. In order to get the data, the writers selected five native speakers of Mollo dialect of Uab Meto from Nunbena Village as informants. The instrument of this study is the writers themselves which assisted by using list of sentences in the form of questions. He provided list of questions in Indonesian, and the informants were asked to translate them into Mollo dialect of Uab Meto. Observation, interview, recording and note taking were the data collection techniques of this study. The writer analyzes the data by using three procedures, namely: identifying, classifying and describing. The result shows that: (1). there are nine question words that are used to express interrogatives in Mollo dialect of Uab Meto, namely: sa/sa’an (what), leka (when), sekau (who, whom,), onme (how), esme/makome/noime (where), le’me (which), nansa (why), fauk (how many and how much) and ai/ait (auxiliary) Keywords: Question words, Interrogatives, Mollo Dialect, Uab Meto. 1. Background Language is a very important factor of communication among society. One function of language is to fulfill our needs. If a person uses his/her language, he/she chooses words that match to his/her needs. Geoffery Leech (1974) states that the importance of language can be obviously seen through language functions, namely: informational, expressive, directive, aesthetic, and pathetic functions. By using language, people can state their willingness, dream, agreement, and