Tokodede (language)

Tokodede
Spoken in	East Timor
speaker	46,784
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Central Malayo Polynesian Timor-Flores Timor Ramelaic languages Tokodede
Official status
Other official status in	East Timor ( national language )
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	map
ISO 639-3	tkd

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 Tokodede native speakers in the sucos of East Timors.

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

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. ^ The Languages ​​of East Timor: Some Basic Facts ( January 19, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )