Infobox language name Tetum nativename Tetun, Lia Tetun states flag East Timor flag Indonesia flag Australia ... of Linguistics iso2 tet iso3 tet notice IPA Tetum also Tetun is an Austronesian languages Austronesian ... File Timor Sprache.jpg thumb Languages on Timor Island Tetum has four dialects Tetun Dili , or Tetun Prasa literally city s Tetum , is spoken in the capital, Dili , and its surroundings, in the north ... Terik are not spoken or well understood outside their home territories. Tetun Prasa is the form of Tetum ... of the island. In the fifteenth century, before the arrival of the Portuguese, Tetum had spread through ... Tetum as an inter regional language in their colony. Timor was one of the few Portuguese colonies ... Indonesian was declared the sole official language, but the Roman Catholic Church adopted Tetum ... travelimages timor languages.html Tetum and Other Languages of East Timor , from Dr. Geoffrey Hull s Preface to Mai Kolia Tetun A Course in Tetum Praca The Lingua Franca of East Timor ref When East Timor gained its independence in 2002, Tetum and Portuguese were declared as official languages. In addition to regional varieties of Tetum in East Timor, there are variations in vocabulary and pronunciation, partly due to Portuguese and Indonesian influence. The Tetum spoken by East Timorese migrants ... in Indonesian. Vocabulary Indigenous The Tetum name for East Timor is Tim r Lorosa e , which means ... in Tetum ARE THESE AUSTRONESIAN, OR FROM MALAY? They re Austronesian the Malay equivalents would be besar ... language Portuguese left and Tetum right . From a Portuguese course for Tetum speakers. The Portuguese ... Indonesian Image Kursu portuges 5.jpg thumb 300px right Tetum left and Portuguese right . From a Portuguese course for Tetum speakers. The Portuguese text says Some people pronounce erroneously meja ... ualu eight sia nine sanulu ten ruanulu twenty However, Tetum speakers often use Malay Indonesian ... over one thousand. Combinations Tetum has many hybrid words, which are Combining form combinations ... more details
The Tetum alphabet is used to write Tetum language Tetum . It is based on the Latin alphabet and contains 28 letters center class wikitable style border collapse collapse bgcolor EFEFEF align center colspan 28 Capital letters Majuscule Forms also called uppercase or capital letters width 3 align center A width 3 align center width 3 align center B width 3 align center D width 3 align center E width 3 align center width 3 align center F width 3 align center G width 3 align center H width 3 align center I width 3 align center width 3 align center J width 3 align center K width 3 align center L width 3 align center M width 3 align center N width 3 align center width 3 align center O width 3 align center width 3 align center P width 3 align center R width 3 align center S width 3 align center T width 3 align center U width 3 align center width 3 align center V width 3 align center X width 3 align center Z align center colspan 28 Lower case Minuscule Forms also called lowercase or small letters align center a align center align center b align center d align center e align center align center f align center g align center h align center i align center align center j align center k align center l align center m align center n align center align center o align center align center p align center r align center s align center t align center u align center align center v align center x align center z center See also Alphabets derived from the Latin Tetum language External links http www.asianlang.mq.edu.au INL orthhist.pdf search 22orthography 20Tetum 20language 22 The standard orthography of the Tetum language PDF Category Latin alphabets Category Languages of East Timor Portugal stub ... more details
The Association of Timorese Heroes Tetum language Tetum Klibur Oan Timor Asuwain KOTA , Portuguese language Portuguese Associa o dos Her is Timorenses AHT is a conservative political party in East Timor . In the East Timorese parliamentary election, 2001 parliamentary election held on 30 August 2001, the party won 2.1 of the popular vote and 2 out of 88 seats. According to provisional results, the party won together with the People s Party of Timor 3.20 of the vote in the East Timorese parliamentary election, 2007 June 2007 parliamentary election , and 2 seats. ref http www.cne.tl Eleisaun Parlamentar ACTA 20FINAL aviso publico final 2009 07 07 ENGLISH.pdf National Provisional Results from the 30 June 2007 Parliamentary Elections , Comiss o Nacional de Elei es Timor Leste, July 9, 2007. ref References references East Timorese political parties Category Political parties in East Timor EastTimor party stub de Klibur Oan Timor Asuwain es Asociaci n de H roes Timorenses ja ... more details
Politics of East Timor The Constitution of East Timor entered into force on 20 May 2002, and was the country s first constitution after it gained independence from Portugal in 1975 and from Indonesia, which invaded East Timor on December 7, 1975 and left in 1999 following a UN sponsored referendum. The Constitution was drafted by the Constituent Assembly elected for this purpose East Timorese parliamentary election, 2001 in 2001 . Pursuant to an UNTAET http www.un.org en peacekeeping missions past etimor untaetR reg20012.pdf regulation , the constitution did not need support in a referendum, but entered into force on the day of independence of East Timor after it was approved by the assembly. There are two versions of the Constitution, one in each of the country s official languages, Tetum and Portuguese language Portuguese . The Constitution consists of seven parts, namely I. Fundamental principles II. Fundamental rights, duties, liberties and guarantees III. Organisation of political power including the provisions about the three branches of government IV. Economic and financial organisation V. National defence and security VI. Guarantee and revision of the Constitution VII. Final and transitional provisions External links http www.gov.east timor.org constitution constitution Timor Leste.pdf Text of the Constitution in English http www.jornal.gov.tl public docs ConstituicaoRDTL Portugues.pdf Text of the Constitution in Portuguese http www.jornal.gov.tl public docs ConstituicaoRDTL tetum.pdf Text of the Constitution in Tetum Asia in topic Constitution of Category Constitutions by country East Timor ... more details
Tet can mean T t or T t Nguy n n, the Vietnamese new year Tet Offensive , a military campaign that began in 1968 T t river in Roussillon, France Equal temperament , abbreviated as 12 TET, 19 TET and so on Tet or teth , t th, or , a Semitic abjad character. T t , a town in Hungary code tet code , the ISO 639 2 code for Tetum Tet can also be an abbreviation for tetrahedron or tetrachloride . TET may refer to TET , a Finnish work practice program Test Environment Toolkit, an open framework for building and executing automated test cases Disambig de Tet es Tet eo TET fr Tet id Tet it TET nl Tet no Tet ru fi Tet sv Tet olika betydelser ... more details
L nguas timorenses.JPG thumb right An East Timorese girl speaking from clockwise Bunak, Tetum, Fataluku and Portuguese. Translation In Bunak Tetum Fataluku Portuguese, we say I am in Dili. I have some ..., although it coexisted with Tetum and other languages. Portuguese particularly influenced the dialect of Tetum spoken in the capital, Dili , known as Tetun Prasa , as opposed to the more traditional ... and Tetum. Translation br In Ainaro, we say os and s and nor and n r , just as the Portuguese ... of his efforts to learn Tetum. ref cite web last Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ... from a Portuguese language course using Tetum published in the East Timorese newspaper pt Lia ... Timorese Portuguese Portuguese Tetum language Tetum group2 Working list2 Indonesian language Indonesian ... more details
in East Timor and Work on the Tetum Language In the 1990s he assisted the East Timor ese leadership in exile by standardizing Tetum and creating a range of linguistic and literary resources for this and other ... Leste. He was the designer, principal author and editor of the national Tetum dictionary ref ... para a Padroniza o da L ngua Tetum. Baulkham Hills Sydney . 1994 Mai Kolia Tetun. A Course in Tetum ... Tetum English Dictionary 2nd Ed, Allen & Unwin Publishers ISBN 978 1 86508 599 9 2002 with Lance ... 2000, http www.ramelau.com tetum issues.html Grenfell, Laura Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law ... 2004, http www.tlfq.ulaval.ca axl asie timor est.htm Prof. Hull s Tetum courses in Sidney http www.pasthound.com topics Tetum?PHPSESSID 2ros07p49gp13ik7ob8duggmj1 Stephens, M 2006, Healing Timor Leste ... more details
Timor as Le a, and, in Tetum, is spelled Watulari , Uato Carabau spelled Watucarbau, in Tetum and Viqueque ... Manatuto to the west. Viqueque is a homeland of the Malayo Polynesian language Tetum . In East ... more details
Infobox language name Bunak states Indonesia , East Timor region central Timor speakers 100,000 date 1977 ethnicity familycolor Papuan fam1 Trans New Guinea TNG fam2 West Trans New Guinea languages West TNG linkage fam3 West Timor Alor Pantar ? iso3 bfn File Timor Sprache.jpg thumb Languages on Timor island The Bunak language also known as Bunaq , Buna , Bunake is the language of the Bunak people of the mountainous region of central Timor , split between the political boundary between West Timor , Indonesia , particularly in Lamaknen District and East Timor . It is one of the few on Timor which is not an Austronesian language , but rather a Papuan language like groups on New Guinea . It is usually put in the proposed language group Trans New Guinea . The language is surrounded by Malayo Polynesian languages , like the Atoni and the Tetum . According to Languages of the World Voegelin and Voegelin 1977 , there were about 100,000 speakers of the language, split evenly between the two nations. External links ethnologue bfn Category Languages of Indonesia Category Languages of East Timor Category Timor Alor Pantar languages EastTimor stub pa lang stub de Bunak hr Bunak jezik id Suku Bunak pms Lenga Bunak pl J zyk bunak pt B naque ru th ... more details
The Bunak also known as Bunaq , Buna , Bunake are an ethnic group that live in the mountainous region of central Timor , split between the political boundary between West Timor , Indonesia , particularly in Lamaknen District and East Timor . Their language, Bunak language , is one of the few on Timor which is not an Austronesian language , but rather a Papuan language like groups on New Guinea . It is usually put in the proposed language group Trans New Guinea . They are surrounded by groups which speak Malayo Polynesian languages , like the Atoni and the Tetum . According to Languages of the World Voegelin and Voegelin 1977 , there were about 100,000 speakers of the language, split evenly between the two nations. References Louis Berthe, 1972 Bei Gua Itin raire des anc tres , Paris. Claudine Friedberg, Boiled Woman and Broiled Man Myths and Agricultural Rituals of the Bunaq of Central Timor , in James J. Fox Editor 1980, The Flow of Life. Essays on Eastern Indonesia , Harvard University Press. External links http www.icrainternational.org website a document b peoples bunaq fr.htm ICRA International article on endangered ethnicities in East Timor in French http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code bfn Ethnologue page Category Ethnic groups in Indonesia Indonesia stub Asia ethno group stub de Bunak id Suku Bunak ... more details
300px right Tetum left , Mambai top and Portuguese right . br Translation In Ainaro, we say os and s ... languages Tetum and Portuguese language Portuguese . It is also spoken by some Timorese groups in Australia . There are substantial differences between Mambai and Tetum. The English word name, for example, is kala in Mambai, but naran in Tetum. ref http www.ling.hawaii.edu uhdoc mambae mambaeindex.htm ... more details
Infobox Language name Kemak region East Timor speakers 100,000 1981 Wurm and Hattori familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian MP fam3 Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear MP fam4 Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Central Eastern MP fam5 Timor Babar languages Timor Babar fam6 Nuclear Timor languages Nuclear Timor ? fam7 East Timor ? fam8 Mambaic iso3 kem File Timor Sprache.jpg thumb Languages on Timor island Kemak is a language spoken in East Timor . An alternate name is Ema . It is most closely related to Tocodede and Mambai . It has the status of one of the national languages in the East Timor constitution, besides the official languages of Portuguese language Portuguese and Tetum . The number of speakers has fallen in recent years. DEFAULTSORT Kemak Language Category Languages of East Timor Category Timor Babar languages EastTimor stub Au lang stub de Kemak pms Lenga Kemak pt L ngua qu maque ru th ... more details
Infobox language family name Central Malayo Polynesian altname perhaps a linkage, not a family region Indonesia familycolor Austronesian fam2 Paiwanic languages Paiwanic fam3 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian MP fam4 Nuclear Malayo Polynesian languages Nuclear MP fam5 Central Eastern Malayo Polynesian languages Central Eastern MP ? child1 Several branches iso5 plf map Central MP languages.svg mapcaption The Central MP languages red . In black is the Wallace Line . The Central Malayo Polynesian CMP linkage linguistics linkage is an erstwhile branch of Austronesian languages . The languages are spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands Lesser Sunda and Maluku Islands of the Banda Sea , in an area corresponding closely to the Indonesia n provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku Indonesian province Maluku and the nation of East Timor excepting the Papuan languages of Timor and nearby islands , but with the Bima language extending to the eastern half of Sumbawa Island in the province of West Nusa Tenggara and the Sula languages of the Sula archipelago in the southwest corner of the province of North Maluku . The principal islands in this region are Sumbawa, Sumba , Flores , Timor, Buru , and Seram . The numerically most important languages are Bima, Manggarai language Manggarai of western Flores, Uab Meto of West Timor, and Tetum language Tetum , the national language of East Timor. The Central Malayo Polynesian languages are for the most part poorly attested, and they do not constitute a coherent group. Analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database 2008 ref http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian research.php ref did not discern the possibility of an exclusive relationship. Many of the proposed defining features of CMP are not found in the geographic extremes of the area. Therefore some linguists consider it a linkage linguistics linkage a conservative classification might consider CMP to be a convenient term for the Central Eastern Malayo Polynesi ... more details
, mostly second language speakers, because Tetum was the lingua franca of East Timor. All native ... government of East Timor as one of the official languages with Tetum, along with Indonesian ... Tetum. ref cite web last Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights title ..., Portuguese, and Africans to hear IPA pu f vo . Portuguese phonology is not affected by Tetum ... more details
main ISO 3166 2 ISO 3166 2 TL is the entry for East Timor in ISO 3166 2 , part of the ISO 3166 standardization standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ISO , which defines code s for the names of the principal country subdivision subdivision s e.g., province s or state administrative division state s of all country countries coded in ISO 3166 1 . Currently for East Timor, ISO 3166 2 codes are defined for districts of East Timor 13 districts . Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is tt TL tt , the ISO 3166 1 alpha 2 code of East Timor. The second part is two letters. Before it became independent from Indonesia in 2002, East Timor was officially assigned the ISO 3166 1 alpha 2 code tt TP tt . Moreover, it was also assigned the ISO 3166 2 code tt ID TT tt under the ISO 3166 2 ID I 2 entry for Indonesia . Current codes Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166 2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency ISO 3166 MA . ISO 639 1 and ISO 639 2 codes are used to represent subdivision names in the following official language administrative languages pt Portuguese language Portuguese tet Tetum language Tetum Click on the button in the header to sort each column. class wikitable sortable Code Subdivision name Portuguese language pt Subdivision name Tetum language tet tt TL AL tt Aileu District Aileu Aileu tt TL AN tt Ainaro District Ainaro Ainaru tt TL BA tt Baucau District Baucau Baukau tt TL BO tt Bobonaro District Bobonaro Bobonaru tt TL CO tt Cova Lima District Cova Lima Kovalima tt TL DI tt Dili District D li D li tt TL ER tt Ermera District Ermera Ermera tt TL LA tt Lautem District Lautem Laut m tt TL LI tt Liqui a District Liqui a Likis tt TL MT tt Manatuto District Manatuto Manatutu tt TL MF tt Manufahi District Manufahi Manufahi tt TL OE tt Oecussi District Oecussi Oekusi Ambenu tt TL VI tt Viqueque District Viqueque Vikeke Changes The following changes to the entry have been announce ... more details
Timor . Language s Tetum language Tetum official language official , Portuguese language Portuguese ... of about 16 indigenous languages, of which Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people. The Tetum language is partially influenced by European languages introduced ... more details
Expand German topic geo date November 2010 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image Communication centre.jpg thumb left Women and children s community centre in Liqui Image East Timor map.svg right 251px A map of East Timor showing the location of Liqui Liqui Tetum Likis is a coastal city in East Timor , 32 km to the west of Dili , the national capital. Liqui is the capital of Liqui district Liqui district. The city has a population of 19,000 inhabitants. On April 6, 1999, in the campaign of intimidation and violence that preceded the referendum for East Timorese independence, about 200 persons were killed in the Liqui Church Massacre , when members of the Besi Merah Putih militia, supported by Indonesia n soldiers and police, attacked the church. The number of casualties is, not surprisingly, disputed by Indonesia . During the leadup to the referendum on independence, most of the buildings in the city were destroyed. Only a few buildings from the Portuguese and Indonesian times remain. Most of the inhabitants speak Tocodede . Starting in 1999, it became the district headquarters for the International Police , assigned there by UNTAET , under the United Nations . It also was the home base of operations for the UNTAET Crime Scene Detachment . East Timor capitals Coord 8 35 S 125 21 E display title DEFAULTSORT Liquica Category Populated places in East Timor Category Subdistricts of East Timor Category Article Feedback 5 EastTimor geo stub de Liqui es Liqui id Liqui nl Liqui stad pl Liqui pt Liqui fi Liqui war Liqui zh ... more details
Expand German topic geo date November 2010 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 File Overhead Manatuto 11 Oct 09.jpg thumb Overhead shot of Manatuto taken while flying along the coast in October 2009. Manatuto is a city and one of the subdistricts of Manatuto district Manatuto District East Timor . The city Manatuto Vila has 1,924 inhabitants Census 2006 and is capital of the subdistrict and district Manatuto. It is on the north coast of Timor , located 64 km to the east of Dili , the national capital, on the way to Baucau . The capital is known for its salt production and abundance of tamarind. The town of Manatuto suffered an excessive amount of damage and high murder rate in 1999 compared to other locations. Citation needed date June 2009 The town is still being re built. Citation needed date June 2009 The subdistrict File Sucos Manatuto.png thumb Map showing city and subdistrict The subdistrict with 10,449 inhabitants Census 2004 is divided in six Sucos Ailili , Aiteas , Cribas , Iliheu , Ma abat and Sau Manatuto Sau . The local dialect is Galoli though Tetum is widely known. East Timor capitals Coord 8 31 S 126 01 E region TL type city display title Category Populated places in East Timor Category Subdistricts of East Timor EastTimor geo stub de Manatuto es Manatuto eo Manatuto ko id Manatuto it Manatuto nl Manatuto stad pl Manatuto pt Manatuto war Manatuto zh ... more details
Expand German topic geo date November 2010 File Lospalos Subdistrikt.png thumb left Subdistrict of Lospalos File Lospalos klein.jpg thumb Sacred house in Lospalos Lospalos sometimes mistakenly written Los Palos is a city in East Timor , 248 km to the east of Dili , the national capital. Lospalos has a population of 17,186 2006 and is the capital of the district of Laut m and the subdistrict of Lospalos . The subdistrict has a population of 25,417 2004 . Internationally, the city is incorrectly called Los Palos , suggesting that its name is of Spanish language Spanish origin. In fact, it is derived from Lohoasupala , its name in Fataluku , the local Papuan language , although nowadays Fataluku speakers use the name Lospala . The correct name in English language English , as well Portuguese language Portuguese and Tetum , the official languages of East Timor, is Lospalos . Lospalos is the birth city of the co founder and president of the party APODETI , Frederico Almeida Santos Costa . External links commonscat Lospalos http www.fataluku.com photos Photos of Lospalos East Timor capitals coord 8 31 S 127 00 E region TL type city display title Category Populated places in East Timor Category Subdistricts of East Timor EastTimor geo stub de Lospalos es Lospalos ko id Lospalos it Lospalos nl Lospalos stad ja pl Lospalos pt Lospalos sco Lospalos fi Lospalos sv Lospalos tet Lospalos war Lospalos zh ... more details
Francisco Borja da Costa was the composer of P tria , the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of East Timor , ando also a poet, writing the majority of his work in tetum language . Borja da Costa died at December 7, 1975, the same day of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor . Aside from the East Timorese anthem, his most famous known work may be the poem Um Minuto de Sil ncio A Minute of Silence UM MINUTO DE SIL NCIO Calai Montes Vales e fontes Regatos e ribeiros Pedras dos caminhos E ervas do ch o, Calai Calai P ssaros do ar E ondas do mar Ventos que sopram Nas praias que sobram De terras de ningu m, Calai Calai Canas e bambus rvores e ai r s Palmeiras e capim Na verdura sem fim Do pequeno Timor, Calai Calai Calai vos e calemo nos POR UM MINUTO tempo de sil ncio No sil ncio do tempo Ao tempo de vida Dos que perderam a vida Pela P tria Pela Na o Pelo Povo Pela Nossa Liberta o Calai um minuto de sil ncio... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Borja Da Costa, Francisco ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Composer and poet DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1975 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Borja Da Costa, Francisco Category 1975 deaths Category Year of birth missing Category East Timorese poets Category National anthem writers EastTimor writer stub de Francisco Borja da Costa pt Francisco Borja da Costa ... more details
, English, Indonesian, Tetum and Tokodede , the local language of the Liqui area. The court heard ... www.suaratimorlorosae.com Suara Timor Lorosae Tetum and Indonesian https www.cia.gov library publications ... more details
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