Tetum ( Tetun [ˈt̪et̪un̪] ; Indonesian : Bahasa Tetun ; Portuguese : Tétum [ˈtɛtũ] ) 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 Malaka Regency , which form the eastern part of Indonesian West Timor adjoining Timor-Leste.
23-504: Lautém ( Tetum : Lautein) is a toponym for a place eastmost in East Timor . It may refer to, from small to large: Lautém (city) Lautém Administrative Post Lautém Municipality [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
46-444: A Portuguese suffix -dór (similar to '-er'). For example: Hau 1S rona hear asu dog hatenu barking Hau rona asu hatenu 1S hear dog barking "I hear the dog barking" Nia 3S sosa buys sigaru cigarettes Nia sosa sigaru 3S buys cigarettes "He/She buys cigarettes" Ita 1PL rona hearing rádiu? radio Ita rona rádiu? 1PL hearing radio "Are we hearing
69-456: A language: Ethnologue classifies Tetun Terik as a dialect of Tetun. However, without previous contact, Tetun Dili is not immediately mutually intelligible, mainly because of the large number of Portuguese origin words used in Tetun Dili. Besides some grammatical simplification, Tetun Dili has been greatly influenced by the vocabulary and to a small extent by the grammar of Portuguese ,
92-676: A monarch is disputed. The House of Aviz , known as the Joanine Dynasty , succeeded the House of Burgundy as the reigning house of the Kingdom of Portugal. The house was founded by John I of Portugal, who was the Grand Master of the Order of Aviz . When King John II of Portugal died without an heir, the throne of Portugal passed to his cousin, Manuel, Duke of Beja . When King Sebastian of Portugal died,
115-655: A radio?" Sira 3P moris alive King of Portugal This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal , in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution . Through the nearly 800 years in which Portugal was a monarchy, the kings held various other titles and pretensions . Two kings of Portugal, Ferdinand I and Afonso V , claimed
138-657: A total population of 1,053,971, meaning that the share of native Tetum Prasa/Dili speakers had increased to 36.6% during the 2000s. 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 living in Portugal and Australia are more Portuguese-influenced, as many of those speakers were not educated in Indonesian. The Tetum name for East Timor
161-522: A working language, many words are derived from Malay , including: In addition, as a legacy of Indonesian rule , other words of Malay origin have entered Tetum, through Indonesian. However, Tetum speakers often use Malay/Indonesian or Portuguese numbers instead, such as delapan or oito 'eight' instead of ualu , especially for numbers over one thousand. Tetum has many hybrid words, which are combinations of indigenous and Portuguese words. These often include an indigenous Tetum verb, with
184-459: Is Timór Lorosa'e , which means 'Timor of the rising sun', or, less poetically, 'East Timor'; lorosa'e comes from loro 'sun' and sa'e 'to rise, to go up'. The noun for 'word' is liafuan , from lia 'voice' and fuan 'fruit'. Some more words in Tetum: Words derived from Portuguese: As a result of Bazaar Malay being a regional lingua franca and of Indonesian being
207-587: The Afonsine Dynasty , was the founding house of the Kingdom of Portugal. Prior to the independence of Portugal, the house ruled the feudal County of Portugal , of the Kingdom of Galicia . When Afonso Henriques declared the independence of Portugal, he turned the family from a comital house to a royal house which would rule Portugal for over two centuries. During the Reconquista , the Afonsine Dynasty expanded
230-860: The King of Portugal . Following the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974, Indonesia invaded East Timor , declaring it "the Republic's 27th Province". The use of Portuguese was banned, and Indonesian was declared the sole official language, but the Roman Catholic Church adopted Tetum as its liturgical language, making it a focus for cultural and national identity. After the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) took over governance in 1999, Tetun (Dili)
253-522: The Miguelist branch of the house of Braganza became the pretenders to the throne of Portugal. They have all been acclaimed king of Portugal by their monarchist groups. The monarchs of Portugal all came from a single ancestor, Afonso I of Portugal , but direct lines have sometimes ended. This has led to a variety of royal houses coming to rule Portugal, though all having Portuguese royal lineage. These houses are: The Portuguese House of Burgundy , known as
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#1733084473465276-478: The crown of Castile and waged wars in order to enforce their respective claims. Ferdinand I managed to be recognized as King of Galiza in 1369, although his dominance of the region was short-lived. When the House of Habsburg came into power, the kings of Spain , Naples , and Sicily also became kings of Portugal. The House of Braganza brought numerous titles to the Portuguese Crown some honorary, such as
299-588: The acclamation of Philip II of Spain as Philip I of Portugal in 1580, officially recognized in 1581 by the Portuguese Cortes of Tomar . Philip I swore to rule Portugal as a kingdom separate from his Spanish domains, under the personal union known as the Iberian Union . The House of Braganza , also known as the Brigantine Dynasty , came to power in 1640, when John II, Duke of Braganza , claimed to be
322-507: The attribution of the title of Rex Fidelissimus (His Most Faithful Majesty), and royal titles, such as King of Brazil and then de jure Emperor of Brazil . After the demise of the Portuguese monarchy, in 1910, Portugal almost restored its monarchy in a revolution known as the Monarchy of the North , though the attempted restoration only lasted a month before destruction. With Manuel II's death,
345-404: The country southwards until the definitive conquest of Algarve with Sancho II and the establishment of the Kingdom of Algarve , in 1249 , under Afonso III . When Ferdinand I died, a succession crisis occurred between 1383 and 1385. Ferdinand's daughter Beatrice of Portugal was proclaimed queen and her husband John I of Castile proclaimed king by the right of his wife . Her legitimacy as
368-410: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lautém&oldid=1107833749 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tetum language There are two main forms of Tetum as
391-408: The names of other languages, such as Swahili/Kiswahili and Punjabi/Panjabi . According to linguist Geoffrey Hull, Tetum has four dialects: Tetun-Belu and Tetun-Terik are not spoken outside their home territories. Tetun-Prasa is the form of Tetum that is spoken throughout East Timor. Although Portuguese was the official language of Portuguese Timor until 1975, Tetun-Prasa has always been
414-549: The other official language of East Timor. The English form Tetum is derived from Portuguese, rather than from modern Tetum. Consequently, some people regard Tetun as more appropriate. 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 . Similar disagreements over nomenclature have emerged regarding
437-522: The predominant lingua franca in the eastern part of the island. In the fifteenth century, before the arrival of the Portuguese, Tetum had spread through central and eastern Timor as a contact language under the aegis of the Belunese-speaking Kingdom of Wehali , at that time the most powerful kingdom in the island. The Portuguese (present in Timor from c. 1556) made most of their settlements in
460-594: The rightful heir of the defunct House of Aviz, as he was the great-great-grandson of King Manuel I. John was proclaimed King John IV, and he deposed the House of Habsburg in 1640 during the Portuguese Restoration War . The Habsburgs continued to claim the throne of Portugal until the end of the war in the Treaty of Lisbon (1668) . The descendants of Queen Maria II and her consort, King Ferdinand II (a German prince of
483-513: The throne passed to his Grand-uncle, Henry of Portugal (he might be called Henry II because Henry, Count of Portugal , father of Alphonso I of Portugal , was the first of that name to rule Portugal). When Henry died, a succession crisis occurred and António, Prior of Crato , was proclaimed António of Portugal. The House of Habsburg , known as the Philippine dynasty , was the house that ruled Portugal from 1581 to 1640. The dynasty began with
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#1733084473465506-535: The west, where Dawan was spoken, and it was not until 1769, when the capital was moved from Lifau ( Oecussi ) to Dili that they began to promote Tetum as an inter-regional language in their colony. Timor was one of the few Portuguese colonies where a local language, and not a form of Portuguese, became the lingua franca : this is because Portuguese rule was indirect rather than direct, the Europeans governing through local kings who embraced Catholicism and became vassals of
529-468: Was proclaimed the country's official language, even though according to Encarta Winkler Prins it was only spoken by about 8% of the native population at the time, while the elite (consisting of 20 to 30 families) spoke Portuguese and most adolescents had been educated in Indonesian. When East Timor gained its independence in 2002, Tetum and Portuguese were declared as official languages. The 2010 census found that Tetum Prasa had 385,269 native speakers on
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