Tetum language

Tetum also Tetun is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is spoken in Belu Regency in Indonesian West Timor and across the border in East Timor where it is one of the two official languages. In East Timor a creolized form Tetun Dili is widely spoken fluently as a second language without previous contact Tetum and Tetun Dili are not mutually intelligible. Besides the grammatical simplification involved in creolization Tetun Dili has been greatly influenced by the vocabulary of Portuguese the other official language of East Timor. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video,

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