Lakalei

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Lakalei

Spoken in

East Timor
speaker 3,669
Linguistic
classification
  • Lakalei
Official status
Other official status in East TimorEast Timor East Timor ( national language )
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

lka

Lakalei is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken primarily in the East Timorese community of Manufahi .

Overview

Proportion of Idaté native speakers in the sucos of East Timors

Lakalei is one of the Austronesian languages ​​grouped together to form the Idalaka languages , which are very similar to one another. Together they are recognized as a national language in the East Timorese constitution and therefore enjoy special protection. These dialects are closely related to Tetum and Habun and have a lot in common with Galoli . Idalaka is also so similar to Kemak that it has some archaic features (e.g. personal prefixes in verbs) that have already disappeared in Mambai and Tokodede .

Lakalei is mainly spoken in the Manufahi municipality and especially in the Sucos Fahinehan (95% of the population) and Bubussuso (96%) in the Fatuberlio administrative office and in the Suco Aituha (85%) in the Alas administrative office . In other sucos of Fatuberlio, in the north of the administrative office Same and in the sucos Samoro and Uma Boco (administrative office Barique , municipality of Manatuto ) Lakalei speakers form a minority. The 2015 census recorded 3,669 native speakers.

The numbers in Lakalei
number Lakalei
1 isa
2 rua
3 telu
4th aat
5 lima
6th no
7th hitu
8th ualu
9 sia
10 sakulu

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
  2. ^ Geoffrey Hull : The Languages ​​of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )