Language name: |
TETUN |
UPSID number: |
2437 |
Alternate name(s): |
TIMORESE |
Classification: |
Austro-Tai, Central Malayo-Polynesian |
This language has |
19 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.551522931 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
"t
k
?
b
"d
"s
f
h
m
"n
"r
"l
w
i
a
u
"e
"o
|
Comment: |
Tetun is spoken on the island of Timor around Dili and in two separate areas to the east and west. Morris (1984) is a linguistically unsophisticated source with some especially confusing remarks about vowel sequences. More sequences occur in the dictionary than are listed in the introduction; probably all pairs of vowels occur. /w/ might be analyzed as a prevocalic variant of /u/, as Morris proposes, but there is no parallel to this with /i/. Stress is normally penultimate except a few items stressed on the final syllable. |
Source(s): |
Morris, Cliff. 1984. Tetun-English Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics Series C, no. 83. Australian National University, Canberra. |