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20-494: Manatuto is a city in Manatuto Municipality , East Timor . Manatuto Vila has 3,692 inhabitants (Census 2015) and is capital of the subdistrict and district Manatuto. It is on the north coast of Timor , 64 km (40 mi) (about 50 km (31 mi) as the crow flies) east of Dili , the national capital, on the way to Baucau . The capital is known for its salt production and abundance of tamarind. Manatuto city

40-444: 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

60-456: 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 ,

80-657: 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

100-522: 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

120-459: 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

140-421: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Manatuto Municipality Manatuto ( Portuguese : Município Manatuto , Tetum : Munisípiu Manatutu ) is one of the municipalities (formerly districts) of East Timor , located in the central part of the country. It has a population of 45,541 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,783.3 km . The capital of the municipality is also named Manatuto . It

160-553: Is generally flat and low-lying, with single hills on its southern outskirts. It extends for approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) from the eastern end of Obrato aldeia in Suco Sau to the western end of the Maabat aldeia in Suco Maabat. It also stretches about 2 km (1.2 mi) south from Wetar Strait in its north. Dumi Huhun (156 m (512 ft) AMSL ), in the city's southeast near

180-479: Is the least populated municipality of East Timor. The word Manatuto has been said to be a Portuguese approximation of the local Tetum and Galoli language word Manatutu , which means 'pecking birds'. According to another source, the word is a portmanteau of the Tetum words Mana and tutu , which mean 'old woman' and 'peak' or 'summit', respectively. The legend goes that two groups of people were each living on

200-860: 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)

220-486: The 2010 census, urban sucos are those co-located with municipal capitals, or with certain qualities of population and social amenities. In the case of Manatuto, the city is in effect the urbanised part of the four sucos. Manatuto suffered an excessive amount of damage and high murder rate in 1999 compared to other locations. The town is still being re-built. [REDACTED] Media related to Manatuto (city) at Wikimedia Commons This East Timor location article

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240-582: The east and Manufahi , Aileu , and Dili to the west. It reaches both the south and north coasts of the island, and is only one of two municipalities to do so (the other is Lautém in the far east), and has the most geographical diversity. To the north is the Strait of Wetar , to the south is the Timor Sea . The municipality's administrative posts (formerly sub-districts) are: The administrative posts are divided into 29 sucos ("villages") in total. In addition to

260-423: The main road connecting Dili and Baucau, is the tallest of its hills. Another hill, Saututu Hill (90 m (300 ft) AMSL), is on the eastern side of the city, along the road connecting Manatuto and the small community of Carlilu to its south. The city is the capital of Manatuto municipality, and is made up of four urban sucos . From west to east, the sucos are: Sau, Ailili, Aiteas, and Maabat. According to

280-408: 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

300-621: The official languages of East Timor ( Tetum and Portuguese ), a large part of the population of the municipality speaks the Malayo-Polynesian language Galoli , which is designated as a "national language" by the constitution. The municipality is known as the birthplace of Xanana Gusmão , later to become the nation's first president. He was born in the village of Laleia (19 km East of Manatuto town). [REDACTED] Media related to Manatuto (Municipality) at Wikimedia Commons Tetum language There are two main forms of Tetum as

320-549: 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

340-575: 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

360-440: The summit of a hill, one of them named Sau Raha (now Soraha) and the other Sau Lor (now Saulidun). The two groups were engaged separately in their own daily activities, but each was accompanied by one of two Liurai , who were brothers. The borders of the municipality of Manatuto are identical to those of the council of Portuguese Timor with the same name. The municipality borders the municipalities of Baucau and Viqueque to

380-535: 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

400-468: 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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