Habun

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Habun

Spoken in

East Timor
speaker 2.214
Linguistic
classification
  • Habun
Official status
Other official status in East TimorEast Timor East Timor ( national language )
The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. [2] and number of speakers of the various languages ​​in the individual municipalities (as of 2015). The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. [2] and number of speakers of the various languages ​​in the individual municipalities (as of 2015).
The largest language groups in the sucos of East Timors. and number of speakers of the various languages ​​in the individual communities (as of 2015).
Proportion of Habun native speakers in the sucos of East Timors.

Habun ( Habo ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the area around Cribas , south of Manatuto and northeast of Laclubar ( East Timor ). In 2015, 2,214 East Timorese said they spoke Habun as their mother tongue. It is one of the 15 national languages ​​of East Timor recognized in the constitution . Habun could be an archaic variant of the official language Tetum .

In the past, Habun was very close to its eastern neighbors, the Kawaimina dialects. Habun also shows some similarities with the Idaté dialect of Idalaka, which is spoken in the West.

Numbers in Habun
number Habun
1 isa
2 rua
3 tolu
4th haa
5 lima
6th no
7th hitu
8th ualu
9 sia
10 sanulu

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Statistical Office of East Timor, results of the 2010 census of the individual sucos ( Memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )