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    Tetum (Tetun [ˈt̪et̪un̪]; Indonesian: Bahasa Tetun; Portuguese: Tétum [ˈtɛtũ]) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is one of...
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    Geoffrey Hull (category Tetum language)
    Standard Tetum-English Dictionary 2nd Ed, Allen & Unwin Publishers ISBN 978-1-86508-599-9, 2002 (with Lance Eccles). Gramática da Língua Tétum. Lisbon:...
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    decreolization of the língua brasílica and the related língua geral paulista, then spoken in almost all of what is now São Paulo, a former lingua franca in most...
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  • da UFRJ sobre a cooficialização de línguas no Brasil Município de Itarana participa de ações do Inventário da Língua Pomerana, Prefeitura Municipal de...
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    languages and Timor–Alor–Pantar languages.) The lingua franca and national language of East Timor is Tetum, an Austronesian language influenced by Portuguese...
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    Guineaecuatorialpress.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12. "A língua portuguesa". Linguaportuguesa.ufrn.br. Retrieved 2015-08-12. "A língua portuguesa". Linguaportuguesa.ufrn.br...
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  • 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...
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    Oliveira (2017). O ecossistema fundamental da língua Mambae: aspectos endoecológicos e exoecológicos de uma língua austronésia de Timor-Leste (Doctoral thesis)...
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    Santali, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tetum, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Yorùbá. Lingua has content-sharing/partnerships (formal and informal)...
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    division from the rest of the island by the Netherlands. However, Tetum remained the main lingua franca of Timor-Leste during Portuguese rule, although the most...
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  • especially in its pronouns. Before Alor Malay became lingua franca, Alorese language served as a lingua franca in the Alor-Pantar archipelago before Malay...
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    Tatoli (category Tetum language)
    Information Agencies [de; pt] (Portuguese: Aliança das Agências de Informação de Língua Portuguesa (ALP)). In 2017, it became a public institute, and changed its...
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    languages, regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign...
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    Austronesian language, it is related to Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Tetum, Chamorro, Fijian, Māori, Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, Paiwan, and Malagasy...
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    2006. Alcantara, Maressa Xavier (2014). Descrição fonética e fonológica da língua idaté do Timor Leste [Phonetic description and phonology of the idaté language...
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  • ISBN 967-65-3099-9. "A Língua Portuguesa na Indonésia". Oliveira, Aldina de Araújo (1975). "A influência da cultura e da língua portuguesas na Indonésia...
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    cities throughout Indonesia by migrated Minangkabau. The language is also a lingua franca along the western coastal region of the province of North Sumatra...
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    East Timor (category Articles containing Tetum-language text)
    (PDF) on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2016. "O estímulo ao uso da língua portuguesa em Timor Leste e Guiné Bissau". Blog of the International Portuguese...
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    Oecusse (category Articles containing Tetum-language text)
    Oecusse, also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (Portuguese: Oé-Cusse Ambeno; Tetum: Oecussi Ambeno) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative...
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  • Asia Archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca ("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay and...
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    Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace (category Articles containing Tetum-language text)
    Lobato Presidential Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Presidencial Nicolau Lobato, Tetum: Palásiu Prezidensiál Nicolau Lobato) is the official workplace of the President...
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  • respondents said they had "a capability in Portuguese". The inter-ethnic lingua franca, Tetum has a large number of loanwords derived from Portuguese making the...
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  • language") is designated the bahasa persatuan/pemersatu ("unifying language" or lingua franca) whereas the term "Malay" (bahasa Melayu) is domestically restricted...
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  • Indonesian and English as working languages alongside its official languages (Tetum and Portuguese) and 15 other recognized local languages The state of Goa...
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    by far the most widely spoken of the Bisayan languages. Cebuano is the lingua franca of Central Visayas, the western parts of Eastern Visayas, some western...
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  • Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is quite close to Wawonii. It was a local lingua franca before independence. Bungku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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  • more distantly to Mandar, Massenrempulu, and Mamuju. Taeʼ is used as a lingua franca from south of the border with Buriko Wajo Regency to Malili East...
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  • spoken in certain villages but Shimaore tends to be the de facto indigenous lingua franca in everyday life because of the larger Shimaore-speaking population...
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  • followed. In 1540, João de Barros crown officer published his Gramática da Língua Portuguesa along with moral dialogues and basics of the Catholic Church...
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  • generally known by other ethnic groups. The sporadic assertion about its lingua franca role has been noted to be mistaken. Bacan remains an in-group and...
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