Lakalei
Lakalei | ||
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Spoken in |
East Timor | |
speaker | 3,669 | |
Linguistic classification |
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Official status | ||
Other official status in | 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
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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number | Lakalei | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | isa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | rua | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | telu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
4th | aat | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | lima | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6th | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7th | hitu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8th | ualu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | sia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | sakulu |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
- ^ Geoffrey Hull : The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )