Tocodede language
| Tocodede | |
|---|---|
| Region | East Timor |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2010 census)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Dialects |
Keha (Keia)
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tkd |
| Glottolog |
tuku1254[2] |
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Distribution of Tokodede mother-tongue speakers in East Timor | |
Tocodede (also known as Tukude, Tokodede, Tokodé, and Tocod) is one of the languages of East Timor, spoken by about 39,000 people in the district of Liquiçá, especially the subdistricts of Maubara and Liquiçá along the northern bench of Lois River system. The number has declined in recent years. It is a Malayo-Polynesian language in the Timor group.
The first significant text published in Tocodede was Peneer meselo laa Literatura kidia-laa Timór, translated by João Paulo T. Esperança, Fernanda Correia, and Cesaltina Campos from an article by João Paulo T. Esperança entitled "A Brief Look at the Literature of Timor". The Tocodede version was published in the literary supplement Várzea de Letras, published by the Department of Portuguese Language of the National University of Timor-Leste, in Dili, in December 2005.
References
- ↑ Tocodede at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tukudede". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
External links
- Peneer meselo laa Literatura kidia-laa Timór, the first significant text published in Tocodede
- John 8,1-11 in Tokodede
- Tokodede dictionary on-line
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