Tetum Reference Grammar

Tetum Reference Grammar
Author: Geoffrey Hull
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2004
Genre: East Timor
ISBN:

This volume concentrates on the common Tetum language as it is spoken and written today by educated East Timorese. -- BACK COVER.

Tetum, A Language For Everyone

Tetum, A Language For Everyone
Author: Yohanes Manhitu
Publisher: Mondial
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-12-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1595693211

A Comprehensive Course Book for English-speaking Learners of Tetum. Each lesson consists of a dialogue, followed by essential vocabulary, grammatical or conversational notes, and exercises. Every opening dialogue contains grammatical or conversational elements and practical examples. At the end of the book, you will find answer keys, a concise phrasebook and a two-way dictionary. After working through this book, you should be in a position to converse and write comprehensibly in Tetum.

Endangered Languages of Austronesia

Endangered Languages of Austronesia
Author: Margaret Florey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199544549

This book explores the challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation.

Standard Tetum-English Dictionary

Standard Tetum-English Dictionary
Author: Geoffrey Hull
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781865085999

A fully revised and expanded edition which provides an exhaustive list of words and idioms belonging to the Tetum lanaguage as it is spoken in the territory of East Timor, all with English equivalents. The lexical range covers the register of common colloquial and literary Tetum, archaic rural and local dialects.

East Timor

East Timor
Author: Jean A. Berlie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: East Timor
ISBN:

Mai Kolia Tetun

Mai Kolia Tetun
Author: Geoffrey Hull
Publisher: Caritas Australia
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1993
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

"In the island of Timor some twenty languages and dialects are spoken, and the Tetum taught in this book is not the rural or 'classical' variety of the language, but Tetum-Praca, the structurally simpler and lexically richer verancular of Dili which, during the centuries of Portugese rule, spread from the capital throughout the eastern half of the island as a lingua franca. Although Tetum has no official status today, it is the language in which East Timorese from different regions prefer to communicate, and it remains very much alive in the colonies of East Timorese that have grown up in Australia and Portugal since 1975. Tetum is also widely used by the East Timorese Catholic Church in its worship and everyday dealings with the people, and it is now becoming the vehicle of a modern literature." -- Inside back cover.