Tokodede (language)
Tokodede | ||
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Spoken in |
East Timor | |
speaker | 46,784 | |
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Official status | ||
Other official status in | East Timor ( national language ) | |
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Tokodede ( Tocodede, Tukude, Tokodé, Tocod ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Timor branch spoken by the Tokodede . As one of the Ramelaic languages , it had a stronger influence from the Papuan and Ambonesian Malay languages . They give 46,784 (2015 census) people in East Timor as their mother tongue . Their centers are in the municipality of Liquiçá around the villages of Maubara , Vatoboro , Liquiçá and Bazartete . Tokodede is one of the 15 national languages of East Timor recognized in the constitution .
A closely related language is Kemak . Like this, Tokodede has Papuan and Moluccan elements in its vocabulary. The latter is shared with Galoli and dialects of Wetar . These influences come from Ambonesian traders who came to the region of today's Dili in the 15th century and brought their Creole Malay with them. Tokodede was completely creolized . Unlike Kemak, Tokodede has a simple isolated word formation, similar to Mambai .
Tokodede uses a quinary number system based on the number five.
Numbers in Tokodede | |||
number | Tokodede | ||
1 | iso | ||
2 | ru | ||
3 | telu | ||
4th | paat | ||
5 | liim | ||
6th | hohoniso | ||
7th | hohorú | ||
8th | hohotelu | ||
9 | hohopaat | ||
10 | sagulu |
Web links
- "Peneer meselo laa Literatura kidia-laa Timór" - "A Brief Look at the Literature of Timor" in Tokodede
- Tokodede dictionary on-line ( Memento of July 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Dictionary Tokodede-Tetum-English
supporting documents
- The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Direcção-Geral de Estatística : Results of the 2015 census , accessed on November 23, 2016.
- ↑ Statistical Office of East Timor, results of the 2010 census of the individual sucos ( Memento of January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )