Makalero (language)

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Makalero

Spoken in

East Timor
speaker 8,686
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Other official status in East TimorEast Timor East Timor ( national language )
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

paa

ISO 639-3

mjb

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 Makalero native speakers in the sucos of East Timors

Makalero ( Macalero, Maklere ) is a Papuan language in East Timor . It is traditionally only spoken in the Iliomar administrative office ( Lautém municipality ). A larger group of Makaleros lives in the municipal capital Lospalos (in Sawarica and Natura ) and in the state capital Dili (around 610, mainly in Becora ). Overall, Makalero is the mother tongue of 8,686 East Timorese (2010). It is one of the 15 national languages ​​of East Timor recognized in the constitution .

Independent language or dialect?

Makalero is very closely related to the larger Makasae language. The big similarities in the vocabulary are striking . However , there are some grammatical differences, with Makalero being a bit more conservative than Makasae. To a certain extent, communication between Makalero and Makasae is possible. At Ethnologue , Makalero was seen as the dialect of Makasae until 2015, and many Makalero speakers also refer to their language as the dialect of Makasae.

Numbers in Makalero and Makasae
number Makalero Makasae
1 u u
2 loloi lola'e
3 lolitu lolitu
4th fat loloha
5 lima lima
6th douh there
7th fitu fitu
8th afo afo
9 siwa siwa
10 ruru-u ruru-u

literature

  • Huber, Juliette: Makalero and Makasae . In: Antoinette Schapper (Ed.): The Papuan Languages ​​of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Sketch Grammars. Volume 2. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 2017.
  • Huber, Juliette: A grammar of Makalero - A Papuan language of East Timor , LOT Utrecht 2011.

Web links

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 )
  3. ↑ Huber, Juliette: Makalero and Makasae . In: Antoinette Schapper (Ed.): The Papuan Languages ​​of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Sketch Grammars . tape 2 . De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-1-61451-902-7 , p. 267-352 , doi : 10.1515 / 9781614519027-005 ( degruyter.com [accessed on 14 May 2020]).
  4. ↑ Huber, Juliette: A grammar of Makalero - A Papuan language of East Timor , LOT Utrecht 2011