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title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt-TL">português timorense, <br />português de Timor Leste, <br />português nusantarano</i></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Native speakers</div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">489,113 (2015)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Language_family" title="Language family">Language family</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:1.35em;padding-left:0"><li> <a href="/wiki/Italic_languages" title="Italic languages">Italic</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Latino-Faliscan_languages" title="Latino-Faliscan languages">Latino-Faliscan</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Italo-Western_languages" title="Italo-Western languages">Italo-Western</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Western_Romance_languages" title="Western Romance languages">Western Romance</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a 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Portuguese</b></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: black; background-color: #c9ffd9;">Official status</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official language in</div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_East_Timor.svg/23px-Flag_of_East_Timor.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_East_Timor.svg/35px-Flag_of_East_Timor.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a></i></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><i>None</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/IETF_language_tag" title="IETF language tag">IETF</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code>pt-TL</code></td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236303919">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-has-images-with-white-backgrounds img{background:white}}</style> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG/250px-L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG/375px-L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG/500px-L%C3%ADnguas_timorenses.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1426" data-file-height="1070" /></a><figcaption>Learning in multilingual East Timor, clockwise from left Portuguese, Bunak, Tetum and Fataluku</figcaption></figure> <p><b>East Timorese Portuguese</b> (<span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Português timorense</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>), or <b><a href="/wiki/Nusantara_(term)" title="Nusantara (term)">Nusantaran</a> Portuguese</b> (<span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Português nusantarano</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>), is the <a href="/wiki/Variety_(linguistics)" title="Variety (linguistics)">variety</a> of the Portuguese language spoken in <a href="/wiki/Timor-Leste" class="mw-redirect" title="Timor-Leste">Timor-Leste</a>. It is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste alongside <a href="/wiki/Tetum_language" title="Tetum language">Tetum</a>. As with other Lusophone countries besides Brazil, the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese language</a> curriculum in East Timor is based on <a href="/wiki/European_Portuguese" title="European Portuguese">European Portuguese</a>, with some localisations in pronunciation. East Timor is the only <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">sovereign state</a> in Asia with Portuguese as an official language (excluding <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a> which is an autonomous region of China). There is a growing demand for Portuguese-language courses in the country, both at early-learning and tertiary levels of education.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Timorese Portuguese is a legacy of Portuguese rule of Timor-Leste (called <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Timor" title="Portuguese Timor">Portuguese Timor</a>) from the 16th century. It had its first contact during the Portuguese discoveries of the East, but it was largely exposed to Portuguese Timor in the 18th century after its division from the rest of the island by the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>. </p><p>However, Tetum remained the main <a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a> of Timor-Leste during Portuguese rule, although the most commonly used form, known as <i>Tetun-Prasa</i> used in <a href="/wiki/Dili" title="Dili">Dili</a>, was heavily influenced by Portuguese. Following the <a href="/wiki/Carnation_Revolution" title="Carnation Revolution">Carnation Revolution</a> in Portugal in 1974, political parties emerged in Portuguese Timor for the first time, all of which supported the continued use of Portuguese, including <a href="/wiki/APODETI" class="mw-redirect" title="APODETI">APODETI</a>, the only party to advocate integration with <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, which stated that it would support the right to "enjoy the Portuguese language" alongside Indonesian.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7 December 1975, nine days after declaring independence from Portugal, Timor-Leste was <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Timor" title="Indonesian invasion of East Timor">invaded</a> by <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, which declared the territory as its 27th province in 1976, with <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a> as the sole official language. During the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor" title="Indonesian occupation of East Timor">Indonesian occupation</a>, the use of Portuguese in education, administration and the media was banned by the Indonesian authorities, which saw the language as a threat.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was despite the fact that the 'People's Assembly', which petitioned <a href="/wiki/President_of_Indonesia" title="President of Indonesia">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Suharto" title="Suharto">Suharto</a> for integration with Indonesia, conducted its proceedings in Portuguese, under a banner reading <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt-TL">Integração de Timor Timur na República da Indonésia</i></span> (Integration of East Timor into the Republic of Indonesia).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The last school to teach in Portuguese, the <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt-TL"><a href="/wiki/St_Joseph%27s_High_School,_East_Timor" title="St Joseph's High School, East Timor">Externato São José</a></i></span>, was closed in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The reintroduction of Portuguese as an official language aroused criticism amongst Indonesian-educated youth, but according to the 2004 census, 36.7% of respondents aged six years and older (or 272,638 out of a total of 741,530) said they had “a capability in Portuguese.” <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_context">Social context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Social context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg/250px-PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg/375px-PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg/500px-PNTL_Comando_Geral_2017-08-11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="472" /></a><figcaption>General command building of the <a href="/wiki/National_Police_of_East_Timor" title="National Police of East Timor">National Police of East Timor</a>, Dili</figcaption></figure> <p>After independence, Portuguese was restored by the new government of Timor-Leste as one of the official languages with Tetum, with Indonesian and English as "<a href="/wiki/Working_language" title="Working language"><i>working</i> languages</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-thejakartapost.com_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thejakartapost.com-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Timor-Leste asked for help from Brazil, Portugal, and the Latin Union to spread the teaching of the language, although its prominence in official and public spheres has been met with some hostility from younger Indonesian-educated East Timorese. </p><p>Some people in Timor-Leste have complained that teachers from Portugal and Brazil are poorly equipped to teach in the country, as they do not know local languages, or understand the local culture.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, the late <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9rgio_Vieira_de_Mello" title="Sérgio Vieira de Mello">Sérgio Vieira de Mello</a>, who headed the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Transitional_Administration_in_East_Timor" title="United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor">United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor</a>, was a Brazilian who not only established a close working relationship with <a href="/wiki/Xanana_Gusm%C3%A3o" title="Xanana Gusmão">Xanana Gusmão</a> (the country's first president) as a fellow Portuguese-speaker, but was respected by many East Timorese because of his efforts to learn Tetum.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phonology">Phonology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Phonology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Portuguese dialect of the East Timorese people is similar to other <a href="/wiki/Lusophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Lusophone">Lusophone</a> Asian dialects, like the <a href="/wiki/Goa" title="Goa">Indian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malacca" title="Malacca">Malaysian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Larantuka" title="Larantuka">Indonesian</a> ones, and to some extent, the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language_in_Africa" title="Portuguese language in Africa">African</a> as well. The perceivable difference between Timorese Portuguese and the Portuguese spoken in <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a> lies in the Timorese speaker's intonation, where a subtle Tetum-based tone carrying the Portuguese on top is found. The translation for "please" is <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">por favor</i></span>. It is <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[puʁ<span class="wrap"> </span>faˈvo]</span> in Brazilian colloquial speech, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[poʁ<span class="wrap"> </span>faˈvoʁ]</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[poɾ<span class="wrap"> </span>faˈvoɾ]</span> in Brazilian educated speech, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[po<span class="wrap"> </span>faˈvo]</span> in Timor-Leste, but <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[poɾ<span class="wrap"> </span>fɐˈvoɾ]</span> in <a href="/wiki/European_Portuguese" title="European Portuguese">European Portuguese</a>. Local government and schools are strict to teach European dialect, as <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a>, Portugal and <a href="/wiki/Portuguese-speaking_African_countries" title="Portuguese-speaking African countries">PALOP countries</a> use, because European is the chosen pronunciation, the native pronunciation is closer to European than Mozambican even though it is midway between European and Mozambican dialects, so it is common for foreigners to hear <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[poɾ<span class="wrap"> </span>fɐˈvoɾ]</span> being used in Timor-Leste.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Portuguese standard phonology is slightly affected by Tetum and other native languages, even though it is not a mother language of the population. </p><p>At the level of phonology, there are phenomena of metathesis, denasalization, resyllabification and variation in the realization of palatal consonants, such as /ʃ/ > pronounced as [sʲ] or [s]: </p><p>Ex. chegar (arrive) [se.ˈga.a] ~ [ˈsʲe.ga]; chá (tea) [sʲa]; bicho (bug) [ˈbi.su]; </p><p>/ɲ/ > pronounced like [ɲ], [n], [nʲ], or [j] </p><p>Ex. vinho (wine) [ˈbi.nʲu] ~ [ˈvi.nʲu]; rascunho (draft) [ras.ˈku.nʲu] ~ [ras.ˈku.nju]; bonitinho (cute) [bo.ni.ˈti.ju] ~ [bo.ni.ˈti.nʲu]; </p><p>Nasalization is a typological feature that does not exist in the native languages of East Timor, and in many languages of the world as well. Thus, the Portuguese spoken in Timor broadly presents the phenomenon of denasalization, just as it does not present pre-nasalization (a phenomenon present in many varieties of Portuguese, including <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese" title="Brazilian Portuguese">Brazilian Portuguese</a>, as in "cama" [ˈkãma]); some examples follow: </p><p>educação (education) [e.du.ka.ˈsa.u] ~ [e.du.ka.ˈsa.un] ação (action) [a.ˈsa.u] ~ [a.ˈsa.un] confissao (confession) [kon.fi.ˈsa.u] ~ [kon.fi.ˈsa.un] </p><p>In addition, the timorese usually palatalize the phoneme /ʒ/ to [z] or [dʒ], for example: ʒ > z já [za] ~ [dʒa]; vigésimo (twentieth) [vi.„zɛ.zi.mu] ~ [bi.„zɛ.zi.mu] ~ [vi.„zɛ.si.mu] ~ [bi.„zɛ.si.mu]. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Portuguese appears to be increasing in use by East Timorese. One study, identified as being only used at home by 11% of Timorese in 2002, but that had grown to a third of respondents using it as a language spoken at home, by 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orthography">Orthography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Orthography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Timor-Leste uses the standard <a href="/wiki/European_Portuguese" title="European Portuguese">European Portuguese</a> (<span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">português-padrão</i></span>) spelling patterns: which is used by Portugal, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese-speaking_African_countries" title="Portuguese-speaking African countries">PALOP</a> and Macau. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kristang_people" title="Kristang people">Kristang people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RTP_Internacional" title="RTP Internacional">RTP Internacional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozambican_Portuguese" title="Mozambican Portuguese">Mozambican Portuguese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instituto_Cam%C3%B5es" title="Instituto Camões">Instituto Camões</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=East_Timorese_Portuguese&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.catedraportugues.uem.mz/?__target__=lista-bibliografia-timor-leste">Bibliography on the language situation and teaching Portuguese in East Timor</a> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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