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The Tetum speak various dialects of Tetum. Tetun Prasa is the official language of East Timor alongside Portuguese. In East Timor alone, over 432,766 people speak Tetum as their first language (2015).
The English form Tetum is derived from Portuguese, rather than from modern Tetum. Consequently, some people regard Tetun as more appropriate. [5] Although this coincides with the favoured Indonesian form, and the variant with m has a longer history in English, Tetun has also been used by some Portuguese-educated Timorese, such as José Ramos-Horta and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo.
Mambai people; T. Tetum people; Toko Lay This page was last edited on 29 July 2021, at 14:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Under Portuguese rule, all education was through the medium of Portuguese, [citation needed] 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 version spoken in rural areas, known as Tetun Terik.
Chinese people in Timor-Leste; K. Kemak people; M. Mambai people; T. Tetum people; Toko Lay This page was last edited on 26 December 2024, at 10:43 ...
Tetum may refer to: Tetum language, an Austronesian language Tetum alphabet, used to write the Tetum language; Tetum people, an ethnic group of East Timor and Indonesia
The total population is over 1.34 million at the 2022 census, and is heavily skewed towards young people due to a high fertility rate. Education has led to increasing literacy over the past half-century, especially in the two official languages of Portuguese and Tetum.
Within the group, the languages with the most speakers are Uab Meto of West Timor, Indonesia and Tetum of East Timor, each with about half a million speakers, though in addition Tetum is an official language and a lingua franca among non-Tetum East Timorese.