Tetum /ˈtɛtʊm/ 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.
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ISO 639-2 code
tet
ISO 639-3 code
tdt, tet
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Malayo-Polynesian languages, Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages, Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian languages, Timoric languages
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