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El tetun es, junto con el portugués, el idioma oficial de Timor Oriental. Se trata de una lengua austronésica con muchas palabras de origen portugués y malayo . El tetun se desarrolló como una lengua de contacto durante el siglo XVI, después de la colonización portuguesa. El dialecto principal, hablado en la capital del país, Dili, se ...
About us. Tetun.org is the only free machine translation service for the Tetun language. The Android app , iOS app and website together have over 60,000 monthly active users, and growing! Tetun.org was entirely set up as a volunteer project, led by Raphaël Merx since 2019, and developed in collaboration with Katrina Langford (TimorLink) since ...
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Tetum (Lia-Tetun) Tetum is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. Tetum is spoken in Belu Regency in West Timor in Indonesian, and also in East Timor, where it is an official language. In 2011 there were about 550,000 speakers of Tetum. There are three dialects of Tetun: Tetun-Terik, Tetun-Belu and Nana'ek.
The Tetum numbered more than 300,000 in the late 20th century. Of Melanesian and Indonesian-Malay stock, the Tetum may be descendants of invaders who brought Indonesian culture to Timor. The Tetum speak a Malayo-Polynesian dialect and practice slash-and-burn cultivation of corn (maize), sweet potatoes, dry rice, and vegetables. Fields are sown ...
Portuguese is spoken by a small fraction of the population, but it is one of the country’s two official languages, the other being Tetum; Indonesian and English are considered to be “working” languages. East Timor: population density. Population density of East Timor. Nearly all of the population is Roman Catholic, with tiny Protestant ...
