tet

E173797

tet is the ISO 639-1 language code for Tetum, an Austronesian language spoken primarily in East Timor.

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tet canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
alternativeName Tetun language
surface form: Tetun
closelyRelatedTo Galoli language
Mambai language
Tokodede language
coOfficialWith Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
countryWhereMajoritySpeakersLive Timor-Leste
surface form: East Timor
hasDialects Tetun language
surface form: Tetun Belu

Tetum
surface form: Tetun Dili

Tetun language
surface form: Tetun Prasa

Tetun language
surface form: Tetun Terik
hasGlottocode tetu1245
hasISO639-1Code tet
hasISO639-2Code tet
hasISO639-3Code tet
hasLinguasphereCode 31-EEF-d
hasMorphologicalType moderately analytic language
hasNativeName Tetun language
surface form: Tetun
hasOfficialStatusIn Timor-Leste
surface form: East Timor
hasPhonologicalFeature five-vowel system (a, e, i, o, u)
hasSignificantLoanwordsFrom Indonesian
surface form: Indonesian language

Malay
surface form: Malay language

Portuguese language
hasStatus national language of East Timor
influencedBy Indonesian
surface form: Indonesian language

Malay
surface form: Malay language

Portuguese language
ISOStandard ISO 639
surface form: ISO 639-1

ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 Registration Authority
surface form: ISO 639-3
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
surface form: Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
primaryUse lingua franca in East Timor
region Southeast Asia
island of Timor
regulatingBody Instituto Nacional de Linguística (Timor-Leste)
surface form: Instituto Nacional de Linguística (East Timor)
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Timor-Leste
surface form: East Timor

Timor-Leste
typologicalFeature SVO word order
usedAs liturgical language in East Timor
usedIn education in East Timor
government in East Timor
media in East Timor
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Tetum ISO639-1Code tet