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Tetum ( Tetun [ˈt̪et̪un̪]; Indonesian: Bahasa Tetun; Portuguese: Tétum [ˈtɛtũ]) [3] is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste and it is also spoken in Belu Regency and in Indonesian West Timor . There are two main forms of Tetum as a language:
- 500,000, mostly in Indonesia (2010–2011)
Une fille du Timor oriental parlant tétoum et portugais. Le tétoum, écrit aussi tétum, tetum, et tetun, est la langue nationale du Timor oriental, et une des deux langues officielles du pays avec le portugais. Il est parlé en 2010 par 800 000 Est-Timorais, soit 85 % de la population du pays 1, ainsi que par 400 000 Indonésiens dans le ...
- 1,2 million (2011), Timor oriental : 764 914 (2010), Timor occidental : 400 000 (2011)
- langue individuelle
- Instituto Nacional de Linguística
- Timor oriental, Indonésie
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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.
ONLINELINGUIST List Resources for Tetum. Damir Cavar, eLinguistics Foundation Board Member (editor); Malgorzata E. Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor). 2022-05-31. The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). oai:linguistlist.org:lang_tet. ONLINEUsing Tetun and Portuguese for teaching in Grades 5 and 6.
For several centuries, East Timor was a Portuguese colony, because of that fact Tetum gained many similarities to that language. Eventually, East Timor was annexed by Indonesia. After a protracted fight for independence, the people was allowed to chose via a referendum.
