One problem is, will it use Tetum or Tetun? Tetum is a creole language based on Tetun and is the national and official language of East Timor. Tetun is a regional language of Timor.
Tetum is basically a grammatically simplified form of Tetun with some words from other Timorese languages.
Mark
On 13/01/06, Manuel de Sousa manuel.sousa@tvtel.pt wrote:
Giuseppe, As far as I know, a Tetum Wikipedia was proposed last November and it got half a dozen people supporting the idea. However, there were no native speakers of the language supporting this project.
See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Native_speaker_sup port#Tetum_.287_support.29
For those who don't know, Tetum is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste (or East Timor), the youngest independent nation in the world (the other official language is Portuguese).
Seeking for supporters, I recently sent mails to several people related to East Timor, and posted a few messages on some blogs and discussion groups. I immediately got several positive answers from native speakers of Tetum, as well as people with excellent command of the language (namely non-native speakers teachers of Tetum).
However, most of these people are not yet registered in the meta-wiki. I'm now seeing that they do register and express their support to this project as native speakers.
So, I'm absolutely convinced this Wikipedia in Tetum is viable, and that it can be an exceptional tool for East-Timorese to promote their national language internally and abroad.
So, as I guess there is a consensus to create a wiki in Tetum, I'm also interested in knowing what must be done in order to have this setup. Must I ask a developer? How can I do this?
Thanks & regards, Manuel de Sousa Porto, Portugal
-----Mensagem original----- De: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l- bounces@Wikimedia.org] Em nome de Giuseppe DAngelo Enviada: sexta-feira, 13 de Janeiro de 2006 10:11 Para: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Assunto: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia in Tetum
Could someone please confirm whether a Wikipedia in Tetum has recenlty been set up, or whether it is about to be set up? Thanks! pippu d'angelo
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